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The Lion by Joseph Kessel5/19/2023 It is through films and other archives that we will tell the story of Kessel and browse his astonishing biography. He did it all with panache, with no fear of death, and survived everything: war, drugs, alcohol… If many reporters have made him their reference, it is because Joseph Kessel is the bearer of universal values and a personal talent, making for great men and great stories. Through all those years Kessel had worked, had fun and loved, in a whirlwind of wild passions. At the age of 60 he became the author of one of the greatest best-sellers of the 20th century, "The Lion". With an innate sense of drama, the one they called "Jef" created his life as an adventure film, a life where fantasy and reality intermingled, a haunting waltz around characters that resembled him, like a film with himself as the hero. He doesn’t go on stage, but turns his life into a novel. Special correspondent, writer, resistant, Joseph Kessel has known both wealth and glory.Īt the age of 17 he dreamt of being an actor, but the suicide of his brother made him give up that dream. Against the backdrop of kilimanjaro, on a great game preserve in Kenya, the warden, once a great hunter, his ten-year-old daughter Patricia, Oriunga, a primitive Masai warrior, and King, the gorgeous lion the small girl loves and knows well.
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