Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Eddie Constantine
Lemmy Caution
Anna Karina
Natacha von Braun
Akim Tamiroff
Henri Dickson
Valérie Boisgel
2nd Seductress Third Class
Jean-Louis Comolli
Prof. Jeckell
Paul Éluard
Writer
Michel Delahaye
Von Braun's Assistant
Jean-André Fieschi
Prof. Heckell
Christa Lang
1st Seductress Third Class
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Breakfast Waiter
Howard Vernon
Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
László Szabó
Chief Engineer
Jean-Luc Godard
Director
Ernest Menzer
Red Star Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
René Levert
Sound
André Michelin
Producer
Paul Misraki
Composer
Raoul Coutard
Cinematographer
Agnès Guillemot
Editor
Pierre Guffroy
Production Design
Charles L. Bitsch
Assistant Director
Philippe Dussart
Production Manager
Jean-Paul Savignac
Assistant Director
Giorgio Moser
Producer
Georges Liron
Camera Operator
Georges Pierre
Still Photographer
Hélène Kalougine
Assistant Director
René Allamelle
Producer
Jo Siritzky
Producer
Jacques Barzaghi
Assistant Director Trainee
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 5, 1965
Original NameAlphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Budget$220,000
Box Office$46,585
Filming LocationsParis, France
Genres
Wiki.
Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution) is a 1965 French New Wave science fiction neo-noir film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon, and Akim Tamiroff. The film won the Golden Bear award of the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965.Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. There are no special props or futuristic sets; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings (which in 1965 were new and strange architectural designs) represent the city's interiors. The film is set in the future but the characters also refer to twentieth-century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran.
Expatriate American actor Eddie Constantine plays Lemmy Caution, a trenchcoat-wearing secret agent. Constantine had already played this or similar roles in dozens of previous films; the character was originally created by British crime novelist Peter Cheyney. However, in Alphaville, director Jean-Luc Godard moves Caution away from his usual twentieth-century setting and places him in a futuristic sci-fi dystopia, the technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville.