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Director:
Jean-Luc Godard
Writers:
Jean-Luc Godard (writer)
Jean Gruault (writer)
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Release Date:
27 September 1967 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | War more
Plot:
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits. full summary | add synopsis
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Godard To Direct Holocaust Pic?
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Cast

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Marino Masé ... Ulysses (as Marino Mase)
Patrice Moullet ... Michel-Ange (as Albert Juross)
Geneviève Galéa ... Venus
Catherine Ribeiro ... Cleopatre

Barbet Schroeder ... Car salesman
Jean-Louis Comolli ... Soldier with fish
Gérard Poirot ... Carabinier #1
Jean Brassat ... Carabinier #2
Alvaro Gheri ... Carabinier #3
Odile Geoffroy ... Young Communist girl
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Carabineers (International: English title)
The Soldiers (UK)
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Runtime:
Argentina:85 min | USA:80 min | France:75 min | Portugal:80 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
French
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16
Filming Locations:
Rungis, Val-de-Marne, France
Company:
Cocinor more

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Referenced in Godard in America (1970) more

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Why ?, 8 August 2004
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Author: grizzli-2 (grizzli@free.fr) from Paris

I don't understand how or why this movie was so much criticized. I just saw it on DVD and found it excellent. It's completely different of what Godard usually does : I tend to be a little disturbed by his systematic use of quotations (a good example is the recent "Eloge de l'amour"), and there is no such thing in "Les Carabiniers". The dialogs are completely pure, and there is a very clever use of enumerations, which seldom happens in a movie. Great scenes, like when the girl demands to tell a poem before she's executed, when Michel-Ange discovers the cinema, when Ulysse and Michel-Ange show Cléopâtre and Vénus the treasures they brought back from war... It's simple and beautiful.

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