La Transversale : Time Travelling

The Pier

La Jetée

Chris Marker

1962
France
28'
Fiction
B&W
French without subtitles

In a devastated Paris in the aftermath of WWIII, The few surviving humans begin researching time travel, hoping to send someone back to the pre-war world for food, supplies and maybe a solution to their dire position. One man is haunted by a vague childhood memory that will prove fateful.

Cast
Hélène Châtelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, Jean Négroni
Screenplay
Chris Marker
Photography
Chris Marker, Jean-César Chiabaut
Sound
Antoine Bonfanti
Music
Trevor Duncan, Piotr Gontcharov
Editing
Jean Ravel
Production
Argos Films

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