La Jetée

Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Marker's La Jetée is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images.

France
1963
27 minutes
Black & White
1.66:1
French

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Collector's Set

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Blu-ray Box Set

1 Disc

$31.96

Collector's Set

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

DVD Box Set

1 Disc

$31.96

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Cast & Credits

Cast

Hélène Chatelain: The woman
Davos Hanich: The man
Jacques Ledoux
André Heinrich
Jacques Branchu
Pierre Joffroy
Étienne Becker
Philbert von Lifchitz
Ligia Borowczyk
Janine Klein
Bill Klein
Germano Facetti

Credits

Director: Chris Marker
Editing: Jean Ravel
Voice: James Kirk
Music: Trevor Duncan (Editions Boosey and Hawkes)
choirs from: The Russian Cathedral of Paris
direction by: Piotr V. Spassky

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