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Portrait de jeunesse de Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Bernard-Henri Lévy and Paris

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On a roof at Grasset. Bernard-Henri Lévy in front of the Elysée Palace, Paris. Bernard-Henri Lévy in the streets of...
Bernard-Henri Lévy and the Manufacturing Director at Grasset, in 1990. Photo by Alexis Duclos.

Printing the first Issue of “La Règle du jeu”

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Bernard-Henri Lévy examins the first issue of his review « La Règle du jeu », 1990. Bernard-Henri Lévy and the Director of...
Bernard-Henri Lévy and Salman Rushdie in Helsinki in October 1992, during a conference.

With Salman Rushdie

Photos by Micheline Pelletier

Bernard-Henri Lévy met Salman Rushdie in October 1992 in Helsinki. For thirty years, the two men have been linked with a strong friendship.
Bernard-Henri Lévy In the Shamali Plain.

Afghanistan: Bernard-Henri Lévy special envoy of the Republic

Photos by Marc Roussel

In early 2002, Afghanistan has to be reconstructed after the departure of the Taliban. A report, a newspaper and countless meetings.
Bernard-Henri Levy with Marchenko in Odessa, on the famous Potemkin steps.

Ukraine: a prayer for Odesa

Photos by Marc Roussel

Bernard-Henri Lévy went in 2022 to the great port of Ukraine, Odessa, a city symbol of coexistence between peoples.
Bernard-Henri Lévy meeting members of the Mozart Group in the south of Zaporijia, Ukraine, in April 2022.

War in Ukraine: with the Mozart Group

Photos by Gilles Hertzog

In April 2022, while reporting in Ukraine for the French magazine "Paris Match", Bernard-Henri Lévy went to the south of the city of Zaporizhzhia to meet members of the Mozart Group, a non-combatant unit engaged in humanitarian and training missions.
On April 9th, in a private garden of Bucha where the Russians had installed their artillery.

War in Ukraine: among the survivors

Photos by Marc Roussel

In April 2022, Bernard-Henri Lévy met those who are fighting and those who have survived the Russian horror on his way to Kyiv, in Bucha, Borodyanka, Andrivka and Irpin.
Bernard-Henri Lévy answers questions from Pedro J. Ramírez, the president of El Español.

“The Will to See” in Madrid

Photos by Javier Carbajal

Bernard-Henri Lévy presented his film "The Will to See" in Madrid with the support of the La Caixa Foundation and "El Español". The philosopher returned to one of the great battles of his life
Presentation of the film "Why Ukraine" by Bernard-Henri Lévy and his crew at the Cinema Le Balzac in Paris, June 22, 2022.

“Why Ukraine”: preview of BHL’s film at the Cinema Le Balzac

Photos by Romain Baltz

Bernard-Henri Lévy films the war in Ukraine and urges Europe to act. A call that resounded at the Cinéma Le Balzac, near the Champs Élysées in Paris, where BHL presented his film "Why Ukraine" with his crew, in front of a packed house.
Bernard-Henri Lévy in Lyman, Ukraine.

War in Ukraine: time to reconquer

Photos by Marc Roussel

For his fourth trip to the front since the beginning of the war, Bernard-Henri Lévy discovers Ukrainians exhausted but galvanized by their recent victories from Kharkiv to Kherson passing through Mykolaïv, Odessa or Lyman.
With an elite "border control" unit near Nikopol. BHL is preparing a documentary on the Ukrainian war to recapture Ukraine’s invaded territory.

War in Ukraine: men and women in struggle

Photos by Marc Roussel

In October 2022, BHL got closer to the new front lines drawn by the success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. He met determined men and women from Kiev to Kupiansk, from Lyman to Zaporizhzhia and from Kherson.
In Kupiansk, Bernard-Henri Lévy facing Russian barbarism.

War in Ukraine: BHL follows the counter-offensive

Photos by Yaroslav Prokopenko

Ukrainian photographer Yaroslav Prokopenko followed BHL along the Ukrainian front lines in October 2022. The philosopher accompanied border control units in their counter-offensive against Russia.
Cruz Sánchez de Lara, Vice President of "El Español"; José Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Bernard-Henri Lévy, writer and philosopher, director of the film "Why Ukraine".

BHL receives the Lion of “El Español” award in Madrid, Spain

Photos by Esteban Palazuelos

On November 3rd, 2022, in Madrid, BHL was awarded a Lion in Madrid by the newspaper "El Español". They are given to honor those who embody freedom, justice, equality and combativeness. The philosopher shared this award with the women of Mariupol who supported the siege of Azovstal’s fighters.
Ilya Samoilenko, Kateryna Prokopenko, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, Emily Hamilton, Marc Roussel, François Margolin, Gilles Hertzog, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Olivier Jacquin, Sergei Osipenko Nathan Rav Ben Noon, at the preview of BHL's film "Slava Ukraini" on 6 February 2023 at the Balzac. Photo: Igor Shabalin

“Slava Ukraini”: premiere of BHL’s new film in Paris 

Photos by Igor Shabalin et Bertrand Rindoff

After "Why Ukraine" BHL returned to the battlefield to make a new documentary, "Slava Ukraini", which premiered at the Le Balzac cinema, in Paris, on February 6th, 2023, in the presence of his crew and the film’s protagonists.

Bernard-Henri Lévy and Yulia Paevska alias "Taïra", during the screening of BHL's film "Slava Ukraini" in a Kyiv cinema.

“Slava Ukraini”: screening of BHL’s film in Ukraine, in Kyiv

Photos by Yaroslav Prokopenko

On February 26th, 2023, BHL presented his film "Slava Ukraini" at the Zhovten Cinema in Kyiv in the presence of the Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko and the Minister of Defence Oleksiy Reznikov.