Sartre par lui-même (1976)
Directed by Alexandre Astruc, Michel Contat

Film Synopsis

Jean-Paul Sartre speaks about the apparent contradiction between his political convictions and his bourgeois origins.  Then he talks about his childhood, his meeting with Paul Nizan and Simone de Beauvoir, and his first contact with philosophy.  He talks about his work as a writer, his first successful novel, La Nausée, and his early plays in which he denounced the Vichy régime at the time of the Nazi occupation.  After the war, he had become famous as one of the leading philosophers of the day, the father of existentialist theory.  His politics had changed by this time.  He left the Communist Party and supported Algerian independence.  Who better to talk about Jean-Paul Sartre than Jean-Paul Sartre himself?