Jean-Luc Godard
France – 1965

Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Éluard
Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Production: Athos Films, Chaumiane Filmstudio
Language: French
Duration: 100 min
Color: Black and White
Synopsis: In a near future, the American secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to Alphaville posing as a journalist named Ivan Johnson from the Figaro-Pravda newspaper. His mission is to find the missing agent Henri Dickson and to convince Professor von Braun to come with him to Nueva York. Von Braun is actually Leonard Nosferatu, inventor of the powerful computer Alpha 60 that has engineered the inhuman dystopian society of Alphaville. Here love, conscience, poetry, and emotion have been banished, and words are systematically eliminated from the dictionary. To deal with the omnipresent Alpha 60, Lemmy recruits the help of Natacha von Braun, the evil scientist’s daughter. They fall in love, but he needs to complete his mission before leaving Alphaville.