La Jetée

A man's obsession with an image of his past
La Jetée (1962)
Timing: 0:29 (29 min)
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Director
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Producer
Anatole Dauman
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Composer
Trevor Duncan
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Jean Ravel
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Short description

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Marker conceived the idea for the film after watching Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958).
  • "Runaway Train" is the only fictional film in the career of documentarian Chris Marker.
  • The film's style had a significant influence on Luc Besson's debut film, "The Last Battle" (1983).
  • The plot of “Runway” formed the basis for Terry Gilliam’s film “12 Monkeys” (1995).
  • Almost the entire film consists of a sequence of photographs.

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