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Alphaville

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Drama • Drama, Sci-Fi, UR, 05-May-1965

In Godard's dystopian sci-fi, detective Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) travels to the soulless technopolis of Alphaville on a secret mission to capture the dictatorial Professor Von Braun and destroy the Alpha 60 computer that has outlawed human emotions. Love comes to his aid in the form of Anna Karina’s Natasha von Braun and the poetry of French surrealism.

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Future
Cast
Eddie Constantine Lemmy Caution
Anna Karina Natacha von Braun
Crew
Jean-Luc Godard director

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