Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Eddie Constantine
Lemmy Caution
Anna Karina
Natacha von Braun
Akim Tamiroff
Henri Dickson
Valérie Boisgel
2nd Seductress Third Class (uncredited)
Jean-Louis Comolli
Prof. Jeckell (uncredited)
Michel Delahaye
von Braun's Assistant (uncredited)
Christa Lang
1st Seductress Third Class (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Breakfast Waiter (uncredited) / Assistant Director
László Szabó
Chief Engineer (uncredited)
Howard Vernon
Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
Ernest Menzer
Red Star Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
Jean-André Fieschi
Prof. Heckell (uncredited)
Paul Misraki
Original Music Composer
Raoul Coutard
Director of Photography
Agnès Guillemot
Editor
Jean-Luc Godard
Director / Writer
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
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Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution) is a 1965 French New Wave tech noir film written and 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. Although the film is set in the future, the characters also refer to 20th-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.