The Philosophers
- Directed by
- Roberto Rossellini
- Genre
- drama film, biographical film, historical film
- Country
- France, Italy
How it feels
This film series follows the lives of four major philosophers from the modern age: Socrates, Blaise Pascal, Augustine, and Rene Descartes. It shows them developing their ideas and captures moments in history when human thinking changed dramatically.
educationalcontemplativestatelyintellectualmeasuredintrospectivehistorical
What happens
The Philosophers (I filosofi) is a French-Italian drama video-biographical film series, produced by the Istituto Luce and directed by the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, in the period 1971-1974; a feature-length tetralogy chronicling the lives of Modern Age philosophers: Sócrates (1971), Blaise Pascal (1972), Augustine (1972) and, René Descartes (1974), together with the evolution of his theories in a philosophical perspective, and show moments in history when human consciousness undergoes a radical transformation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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