Alphaville

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

Cast

Eddie Constantine

as Lemmy Caution

Anna Karina

as Natacha von Braun

Akim Tamiroff

as Henri Dickson

Valérie Boisgel

as 2nd Seductress Third Class (uncredited)

Jean-Louis Comolli

as Prof. Jeckell (uncredited)

Michel Delahaye

as von Braun's Assistant (uncredited)

Christa Lang

as 1st Seductress Third Class (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Léaud

as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)

László Szabó

as Chief Engineer (uncredited)

Howard Vernon

as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

Reviews

CRCulver

Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film ALPHAVILLE has one of the most bizarre premises in the history of cinema. Godard borrows the character of Lemmy Caution, a tough FBI agent/secret agent played by Eddie Constantine that had appeared in a number of French B movies, and then Godard drops Caution into a scien...

lancethedealer

Ivan Caution explores the dystopian Alphaville where the only truth is logic, anything else is punishable by death. Everybody is popping pills, womenn are classes by their seductive level and the men are merely puppets to the computer Alpha 60. The plot is strangely reminiscent of today, almost i...

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