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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
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.
Le petit soldat. Before his convention-shattering debut, Breathless, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier (Michel ...
- Bruno Forestier
Jean-Luc Godard. "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. And his shooting and writing styles, alas ...
Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Scott Nye Battleship Pretension What Le petit soldat, like all Godard's great films, lacks in traditional narrative or aesthetic form it more than regains in its immediacy ...
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- Michel Subor
- Jean-Luc Godard
- History, Drama, War
Because of Godard's ambivalent attitude to the Algerian War and his matter-of-fact depiction of brutality and torture in Le Petit Soldat (1963), the film was banned by the French Ministry of Information until 1963 when it was released with minor cuts. The film was his first foray into politics and the screen debut of Anna Karina, a former model ...
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.
