Alphaville Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 99 mins
- Year produced:
- 1965
- Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Eddie Constantine
- Anna Karina
- Akim Tamiroff
Sci-fi noir came to the movies almost 20 years before the famous Blade Runner with this futuristic French classic. Hardboiled detective Lemmy Caution lands on a strange planet, where the city of Alphaville is being ruled by a totalitarian super-computer, and love and free thought are punishable by death. Can Lemmy, complete with dame, save the day? Star Eddie Constantine plays the Philip Marlowe-esque hero dead straight as writer/director Jean-Luc Godard (one of the founders of the French “New Wave”) gleefully mashes-up genres at the same time as making serious points about the dangers of state control.
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Fascinating facts
Despite the fact that the film is a work of science fiction and supposed to be in a city of the future, all the sets were existing locations in Paris in 1965, and all the weapons are conventional firearms.
Despite appearances, the futuristic city of Alphaville was not a set - everything was filmed on location in Paris.