This documentary, made with the complicity of Maurice Bejart, reveals the first 30 years of his life which were totally unknown: his happy childhood in Marseilles, the painful loss of his mother, his classic training at the hard Russian school, his father s death, the philosopher Gaston Berger, the debuts in Birgit Cullberg s Swedish company.

All these events marked the dancer, the choreographer, the artist, the thinker, and they throw a new light on his work. It is the genius of Bejart under all it s forms that is shown in this film which proposes a global vision of this already legendary figure of dance.

Listen as Bejart sits down one last time in front of the camera to tell his remarkable story.