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Le petit soldat (transl. The Little Soldier) is a French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960, but its release was delayed until 1963 by censorship. It was the first project on which Godard worked with Anna Karina, who stars alongside Michel Subor, but the third to be released.
The Little Soldier: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais. During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.
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- Drama, War
- Jean-Luc Godard
- 1963-01-25
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 ...
- Bruno Forestier
"Le Petit Soldat" was Jean-Luc Godard's second film, made in 1960 when "Breathless" was creating a sensation and the French New Wave made the cover of Time. It wasn't much of a success. Godard, it was said, had lost the light touch of his first film and gotten bogged down in politics.
Censored by the French government for being too much of a political hot potato, Le petit soldat didn't even see the light of day until after the release of Godard's fourth film, circa 1963.
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- Michel Subor
- Jean-Luc Godard
- History, Drama, War
Shot in 1960, but banned until 1963 due to its frank treatment of French torture of Algerian separatists, Jean-Luc Godard's Le petit soldat is a political thriller mixed with a love story. Bruno (Michel Subor) is a French agent in Geneva, fighting a secret war against Arab spies supporting the Algerian cause.
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Jan 21, 2020 · Le petit soldat nominally adheres to the form of a spy film, with chases, failed assassinations, and a love affair across lines of allegiance, but it is above all an inward-looking film, shaped by Bruno’s first-person voice-over, which is so pervasive that the experience of watching the film can feel like spending an hour and a half inside ...
