Le Petit Soldat

Le Petit Soldat

1963 · 87 min · FR · 6.9 (188 votes)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · Starring Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais, Szabó László, Georges de Beauregard · Music Maurice Le Roux
DramaRomance

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

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A chillingly detached look at ideological fervor and doomed romance. It feels like a cold, intellectual dissection of political extremism, where love is a dangerous casualty of war and ideology.

tensephilosophicalbleakunsettlingsteadypolitical thrillerarthousevintageideological conflictlovebetrayalwar
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algeriafrench colonialismalgerian war (1954-62)djazairanti-imperialism
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