"Jean-Luc Godard`s 9th feature film which was exclusively filmed at real locations in Paris without using special effects, tells the story of Lemmy Caution, a middle aged secret agent from New York who travels 9000 miles in order to investigate a futuristic place called Alphaville, where the ideal is a technically organized society. Caution presents himself to the Citizens of Alphaville as a reporter named Ivan Johnson who`s reason for visiting Alphaville is to write an article for Figaro-Pravda about a professor called Von Braun. During his investigation he encounters with the professors daughter Natacha Von Braun, who works as a programmer of a mindful computer system called Alpha 60 and claims to not know the meaning of the words “conscious” and “love”.

From Raoul Coutard`s fine black and white photography to Jean-Luc Godard`s precise camera movements, the rewarding narrative, the multiple voice-overs, the credible acting and the suitable genre mix, this dialog driven french production which was awarded with the Golden Bear at the 15th Berlinale in 1965, is a well paced intellectual and visionary sci-fi, film-noir and romance with existentialistic themes and efficient foreboding moods. This black-and-white cult classic is not the most characteristic Jean-Luc Godard film, but nevertheless an observantly directed, nicely edited and beautifully realized vision of a remote future which is one of the greatest films in the science fiction genre."