La Jetée poster
Director Chris Marker
Writer Chris Marker

La Jetée

Tagline: A man's obsession with an image of his past.

Release Date: 1962-02-16

Duration: 28 minutes

Synopsis

A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.

Casting

  • William Klein
    Man from the Future
  • Jean Négroni
    Le narrateur (voix)
  • Hélène Chatelain
    La Femme
  • Étienne Becker
  • Ligia Branice
    Woman from the Future
  • Davos Hanich
    L'homme
  • Pierre Joffroy
  • Jacques Ledoux
    The Experimenter
  • André Heinrich
  • Philbert von Lifchitz