The Little Soldier (1963) ( Le Petit Soldat )

The Little Soldier (1963) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le Petit Soldat
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Mono )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Written By:
Jean-Luc Godard

Actors:
Michel Subor ..... Bruno Forestier
Anna Karina ..... Veronica Dreyer
Henri-Jacques Huet ..... Jacques
Paul Beauvais ..... Paul
László Szabó ..... Laszlo

Synopsis:

Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier), writer/director Jean-Luc Godard's second feature film, was made in 1960 but immediately banned in France due to its sensitive political content and did not premiere until 1963. Michel Subor (Beau Travail) stars as Bruno Forestier, an army deserter caught in the middle of a covert war between the French government and the Algerian Liberation Front in Geneva. With both sides resorting to any means to achieve their clandestine ends, Bruno must decide what he is willing to do to escape with Veronica (Anna Karina, star of Band of Outsiders and A Woman Is A Woman, in her enchanting debut) and lead a free life. Arguably an espionage riff on the filmmaker's own debut feature, Breathless, this is the film where Godard penned his signature statement: "Cinema is truth 24 frames a second."

This controversial spy-romance tale by Jean-Luc Godard was banned from release in France for three years because it refers to the use of torture on both the French and Algerian sides during the Algerian struggle for independence. The story focuses on Bruno Forestier, a young, disillusioned man who becomes involved in politics, yet in spite of the fact that he stands up to torture and commits murder because of this involvement, he does not have deep political beliefs. Also featured is his lover Veronica Dreyer (Anna Karina, then-wife of director Jean-Luc Godard appearing in her first film) as a motivating factor in Bruno's behavior.

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.

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