La Jetée (1962)

Movie Details

Original Title La Jetée

Original Language FR

Status Released

Popularity 2.2

Cast

Jean Négroni

Narrator (voice)

Popularity: 0.5

Hélène Chatelain

Popularity: 2.0

Davos Hanich

Popularity: 1.1

Jacques Ledoux

Popularity: 1.4

André Heinrich

Popularity: 1.6

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Jacques Branchu

Popularity: 0.1

Pierre Joffroy

Popularity: 1.0

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Étienne Becker

Popularity: 0.2

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Philbert von Lifchitz

Popularity: 0.0

Ligia Branice

Popularity: 1.9

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Janine Klein

Popularity: 0.1

William Klein

Popularity: 0.6

Key Crew

Director Chris Marker

Editor Jean Ravel

Screenplay Chris Marker

Producer Anatole Dauman

Production

Argos films

Radio-Télévision Française

Videos & Trailers

Trailer

La Jetée at the Akron Art Museum

Featurette

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Keywords

paris, france nuclear war post-apocalyptic future paris orly airport time travel radioactivity short film

Reviews from TMDB

Cyberknight 9/10

Sep 29, 2019

The short film that inspired Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys" (1995). A man travels through time, to his life before World War III, guided by his persistent memories of the past. The story is thoroughly narrated, almost completely made of still greyscale images.

Charles Tatum 8/10

Sep 30, 2023

This French short film, made in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, tells the story of an unnamed man who travels through time looking for help for the destroyed city of Paris. It served as the basis for "Twelve Monkeys," and, I theorize, may have kick started the central idea in "The Time Traveler' ... Read more