André Verdet, seul l'espace s'éternise
Daniel Ziv
2002 - 52 min - Beta numérique - Couleur - France

The poet praising Saint-Paul de Vence, inspired by astrophysicists, André Verdet is a writer (more than 240 books to this day), a painter, sculptor and musician.
His life has nothing of an ordinary destiny ; it was during the shoot for the film "Les Visiteurs du soir", while he was having a nap under and olive tree, that Jacques Prévert, taking him for a tree trunk, sat down on him. The encounter resulted in a deep friendship and many books written together ; "Histoires" for example, or "C'est à Saint-Paul de Vence". A former resistant deported to Auschwitz then to Buchenwald with his friend Desnos, it was at the liberation that he was to meet Picasso who asked him to start painting.
Today, at the age of 88, André speaks to us about his life, his work, his influences, his friendships, the resistance and deportation.
This documentary will be intercut with interviews with certain of his close friends, Arman, Edgar Morin, Ben, and Bill Wyman for example.