La Jetee / Sans Soleil (1962) ( The Pier / Sunless (Sun less) ) ( Bez solntsa Sunless Sans soleil )

La Jetee / Sans Soleil (1962) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Pier / Sunless (Sun less)
Alternate Title: Bez solntsa Sunless Sans soleil
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
127 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Chris Marker

Written By:
Chris Marker

Actors:
Jean Négroni ..... Narrator (voice)
Hélène Chatelain ..... The Woman
Davos Hanich ..... The Man
Jacques Ledoux ..... The Experimenter
André Heinrich
Jacques Branchu
Pierre Joffroy
Étienne Becker
Philbert von Lifchitz
Ligia Branice
Janine Klein
William Klein
Germano Faccetti
Florence Delay ..... Narrator (French version) (voice)
Arielle Dombasle ..... Herself
Riyoko Ikeda ..... Narrator (Japanese version) (voice)
Charlotte Kerr ..... Narrator (German version) (voice)
Alexandra Stewart ..... Narrator (English version) (voice)

Synopsis:

La Jetee (1962): La Jetee depicts the story of a slave sent back and forth through time to try and find a solution to the issues inflicting the population of post World War III Paris. Chris Marker brings his visionary touch, combining still images, graphic sequences and live action to portray a beautiful yet tragic story.

Sans Soleil (1983): A narrated journey through the thoughts, pictures and memories of a young female woman's travels taking in Japan, Iceland and San Francisco. Visionary director Chris Marker bring this story to life with stunning backdrops and beautiful landscapes.

La Jetée (1962)

Time travel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world's fate. To replenish its decreasing stocks of food, medicine and energies, and in doing so, resulting in a perpetual memory of a lone female, life, death and past events that are recreated on an airports jetée.

Sans Soleil (1983):'He wrote me....' A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

La Jetée (1962)

In a devastated Paris in the aftermath of WWIII, The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire position. One man is haunted by a vague childhood memory that will prove fateful.

Sans Soleil (1983)

Sans Soleil is a 1983 French film directed by Chris Marker. The title is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories are affected.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 19 May, 2018.