The Year 01 (1973) L'an 01 (original title)

Directors:

Jacques Doillon
Alain Resnais
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Writer:

Gébé (written by)

Release Date:

22 February 1973 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Bra Less Woman | Work Stoppage | 1970s | Labor | General Strike

Cast

Véronique Alain
Josiane Balasko
Georges Bernier
Romain Bouteille	...	Le collectionneur de billets de banque
François Béranger
Cabu	...	Un conspirateur
François Cavanna	...	Un conspirateur
Professeur Choron	...	Un conspirateur
Christian Clavier	...	Un télespectateur du débat
Véronique K. Colucci	...	La dactylo (as Véronique Kantor)
Coluche	...	Le chef de bureau
Delfeil de Ton	...	Un conspirateur
Philippe Defrance
Christine Dejoux
Albert Delpy	...	Le voleur de bijoux
Gérard Depardieu	...	Un voyageur qui ne prend pas le train
Lee Falk	...	Le banquier (segment "New York")
Jean-Paul Farré	...	Le pompiste
Marcel Gassouk	...	Le père du chef de bureau
Marcel Gotlib	...	Un gardien de prison
Henri Guybet	...	L'homme qui se reveille à 6 heure
Gébé
Jacques Higelin
Gérard Jugnot	...	Un télespectateur du débat
Nelly Kaplan
Daniel Laloux	...	Un publicitaire
Martin Lamotte
Patrice Leconte	...	Le chauffeur du général
Stan Lee	...	Récitant / New York's Narrator (voice)
Thierry Lhermitte
Patrice Minet	...	Un homme qui joue à travailler au bureau
Miou-Miou	...	La femme qui se reveille à 6 heure
Jean-Pierre Moulin	...	Le lieutenant
David Pascal	...	Le vendeur de journaux (segment "New York")
Marie Pillet	...	La femme dans l'épicerie
Maud Rayer
Jacques Robiolles
Jean-Pierre Sentier
Susan Shapiro	...	Girl in taxi - Wall St.
Jean-Paul Tribout	...	L'amoureux scientifique
Frederic Tuten	...	(scene 'New York')
Xavier Bonastre	...	Un passant (uncredited)
François Valleix	...	Un passant (uncredited)

Directed by
Jacques Doillon
Alain Resnais		(sequence director "Séquence de New York")
Jean Rouch		(sequence director "au Niger")

Writing credits
Gébé		(written by)

Original Music by
François Béranger
Jean-Marie Dusuzeau

Cinematography by
Gérard de Battista
Michel Houssiau		(as Mike Houssiau-Chenz)
William Lubtchansky
Robert Millié
Jean Monsigny
Renan Pollès		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Noëlle Boisson

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jean-Jacques Schakmundès	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Jean Charrière	....	sound
Alain Contreault	....	sound
Dominique Dalmasso	....	sound
Gérard Delassus	....	sound
Pierre Gamet	....	sound
Georges Jacquinot	....	sound
Pierre Lorrain	....	sound (as Bernard Lorrain)
Forrest Murray	....	sound
Jacques Orth	....	sound mixer
Jean-Louis Ughetto	....	sound

Editorial Department
Zoé Durouchoux	....	assistant editor
Jean-François Goyet	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Fran Boehm	....	collaborator
Patricia Churchill	....	collaborator: "Séquence New York" (as Pat Churchill)
Manuel Durouchoux	....	collaborator
Roger Fleytoux	....	collaborator
Edward Folger	....	collaborator: "Séquence New York" (as Ed Folger)
Claude Luquet	....	collaborator
Florence Malraux	....	collaborator: "Séquence New York"
Gérard Soirant	....	collaborator
John H. Starke	....	collaborator: "Séquence New York" (as John Starke)
Dominique Toussaint	....	collaborator

Production Companies

• UZ Productions

Distributors

• Cinémas Associés (1973) (France)
• MK2 Éditions (2005) (France) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Tirage 16  laboratory
• GTC  laboratory
• S.I.S.  auditorium

Also Known As:

"L'an 01" - France (original title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

UZ Productions

A long long time ago..

Some movies of the seventies seem to have been made yesterday;not this one.It's in fact one of the most dated works of its era.It's some gentler version of "Themroc" ,less pretentious, funny (in places) but not necessarily more palatable .

There's no story,but a spate of minisketches ,some of them witty,("There's no more property,so there're no more thieves" the warden says while opening the cells ),a lot of them tedious and repetitive.There was enough material to make a very good short,but 85 minutes it's inevitably too long.In a nutshell,let's stop working,let's stop producing,let's stop everything and all you need is love.Hence the title "l'an O1" (=year 01):why a 0,by the way?This is the typically "events of May 68 way of life" film.

If you like it ,try these :Claude Faraldo's "themroc" ,Agnès Varda's "l'une chante et l'autre pas" ,Jean-Luc Godard's " tout va bien"

It was Jacques Doillon's first effort.Although it seems puerile today,it nevertheless displays this director's intellectual ambitions.His best works remain the more accessible :the moving "un sac de billes" (1975)-which people who liked "au revoir les enfants" must see- and the strange disturbing "la drôlesse"(1979) which tells the story of A a hung-up young man who locks up a teenage girl in an attic.