In 1984, he played the existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in the "Prometheus Unbound" episode of Don Cupitt's Sea of Faith (TV series) for BBC.
The generation of authors that debuted during the war and shortly afterwards (Jiří Orten, Group 42) all shared a similar harrowing experience of the war; their works all bear the hallmark of tragedy, existentialist thought, and the focus on the person as an isolated being.
In its sentiment and its conclusions, it has been compared to existentialist works, notably Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus.
The work is thought to be influenced by the style and approach of the existentialist Simone de Beauvoir.
Conservative Jewish philosophers Elliot N. Dorff and Neil Gillman take the existentialist philosophy of Rosensweig as one of their starting points for understanding Jewish philosophy.
Kroner's ideas on Hegel, including his slant from Kierkegaard, were taken up by some existentialist thinkers, including Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdyaev.
Lev Shestov (1866–1938), Ukrainian/Russian - Jewish existentialist philosopher
The Unknown Sigrid Undset, a collection of Undset's early existentialist works, including Tiina Nunnally's new translation of Jenny was assembled by Tim Page for Steerforth Press and published in 2001.
Ordinary People (2009), co-written by Alice Winocour was his acclaimed existentialist feature film debut about seven soldiers posted to an abandoned farm with little information except to shoot a couple of people they have never met.