Programme details

This documentary features a visual voyage to a past both far away and close by: the era of Henri Poincaré, an era that bore witness to our modern science and modern world in the same movement.
At the turn of the 20th century, the magician Mélies sends fantasy adventurers into the Moon and Jules Verne the visionary dies the same year that relativity is born. The Eiffel Tower, designed to be taken apart quickly, survives thanks to its scientific use.
Movement, speed and conquering space!
Crisis and renewal of science!
Freud reveals the hidden face of the mind and quantum physics discovers at the heart of matter an invisible universe just as disturbing.
Henri Poincaré, known by his peers, dominates the scientific world of his era head and shoulders above the rest and talks with the audience...