La Chinoise
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jean-luc Godard
Anne Wiazemsky
Jean-pierre Léaud
Michel Sémeniako
Lex De Bruïjn
Juliette Berto
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
During the summer of 1967 five Maoists form the Rosa Luxemburg cell in a suburban apartment. Among its founders are students Guillaume Meister, Henri, and Véronique, the peasant Yvonne, and the painter Kirilov. So sequestered, the revolutionaries develop personal programs of political action. While Nanterre philosophy student Véronique plans to reform the university by destroying it, Guillaume envisions a theatre in which only the works of Brecht are performed. Disappointed because Véronique declares herself to be the more suitable assassin, Kirilov commits suicide. Exposed as a revisionist, Henri takes to the streets to sell the Communist paper, l'Humanité . Although she mistakenly slays an innocent person, Véronique confidently fulfills her self-appointed murder mission and assassinates a Soviet official. When vacation ends Véronique returns to the university, while Yvonne distributes l'Humanité and Guillaume takes his dramas to an audience of housewives.
Director
Jean-luc Godard
Cast
Anne Wiazemsky
Jean-pierre Léaud
Michel Sémeniako
Lex De Bruïjn
Juliette Berto
Omar Diop
Francis Jeanson
Blandine Jeanson
Eliane Giovagnoli
Crew
Charles Bitsch
Raoul Coutard
Delphine Desfons
Philippe Dussart
Jean-luc Godard
Agnès Guillemot
René Levert
Georges Liron
Marguerite Renoir
Franz Peter Schubert
Karl-heinz Stockhausen
Antonio Vivaldi
Mark Woodcock
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Paris. Opened in Paris in August 1967; running time: 90 min. Also known as La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la chinoise.
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.
Limited re-release in United States July 21, 2017
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States November 24, 1967
Released in United States September 1967
Released in United States Spring April 1968
Shown at London Film Festival November 24, 1967.
Shown at the National Film Theatre in London, England as part of a special two-month program dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard, June 1 - July 31, 2001.
Shown at Venice Film Festival September 1967.
Released in United States 1995 (Shown in New York City (Walter Reade) as part of program "Growing Up with Jean-Pierre Leaud: Nouvelle Vague's Wild Child" December 16 - January 6, 1995.)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at the National Film Theatre in London, England as part of a special two-month program dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard, June 1 - July 31, 2001.)
Released in United States Spring April 1968
Released in United States September 1967 (Shown at Venice Film Festival September 1967.)
Limited re-release in United States July 21, 2017 (New York)
Shot March 1967.
Released in United States November 24, 1967 (Shown at London Film Festival November 24, 1967.)
