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Le Petit Soldat
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures, French.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1963
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2021
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- 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, 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 Forestier 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"
- Participant:
- Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Michel Subor, Paul Beauvais
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1963
- OCLC:
- 1303725615
- Publisher Number:
- 12004013 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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