TV series

Meticulous and Desperate
1989 · 1 season
A slow, serious conversation with four great writers, rich in memory and reflection, asking for patience and rewarding it with depth.
- Created by
- Wim Kayzer
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jorge Semprún, György Konrád, George Steiner
- Overview
- The history of the 20th century told through the memories and reflections of the Spanish writer/politician Jorge Semprún, the Hungarian writer György Konrád, the cosmopolitan writer/literary critic George Steiner and the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, war, politics, identity
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Wim Kayzer
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jorge Semprún, György Konrád, George Steiner



