Bibliograph

Le petit soldat, The little soldier, [Productions Georges de Beauregard ; Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC) ; produced by Georges de Beauregard ; written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard]

Type

Label

Le petit soldat, The little soldier, [Productions Georges de Beauregard ; Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC) ; produced by Georges de Beauregard ; written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard]

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

Main title

Le petit soldat

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

1128831562

Responsibility statement

[Productions Georges de Beauregard ; Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC) ; produced by Georges de Beauregard ; written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard]

Runtime

Series statement

Criterion collection, 1010

Sub title

The little soldier

Summary

"Before his convention-shattering debut, Breathless, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions, a photojournalist Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forrestier becomes infatuated. Banned for two and a half years by French censors for its depiction of brutal tactics on the part of the French government and the Algerian fighters alike, Le petit soldat finds the young Godard already retooling cinema as a vehicle for existential inquiry, political argument, and ephemeral portraiture--in other words, as a medium for delivering 'truth twenty-four times per second'"--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Little soldier

Classification