Suddenly the world is Alphaville , a trench-coat wearing secret agent is a breathless race against the Masters of future . As an extraordinarie Sleuth is sent into the future world and arrives in Alphaville . This is Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an American private-eye, who investigates at a futuristic and logic-constructed city located on another planet. Caution is moved from his usual twentieth century setting, and places him in a futuristic sci-fi dystopia, the technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville .His mission is to rescue a trapped scientific and chase the criminal brain , Nosferatu or Professor Von Braun (Howard Vernon , Jesus Franco's ordinary) . Here he meets Natacha Von Braun (Anna Karina who married Jean Luc Godard) and tried to arrange an interview with her father, saying he is a journalist. In the Red Star hotel he meets Henri Dickson (Akim Tamiroff) and happen weird events . The futuristic city called Alphavilled is run by an electronic brain computer that submits the citizens .
Eddie Constantine came to the film through producer André Michelin, who had the actor under contract , he is good as super private-eye in this jumbled New Wave film . Constantine had become a popular actor in France and Germany through his portrayal of tough-guy detective Lemmy Caution in a series of earlier films and the character was originally created by British pulp novelist Peter Cheyney . It's Sam Spade type of story with Science-Fiction leanings and stretching rather far for some of the plot points . The picture is full of cinematic and literary references as Jorge Luis Borges , Raymond Chandler , and George Orwell , adding comic-book style . Like most of Godard's films, the performances and dialog in Alphaville were substantially improvised . Alphaville mingles the genres of Dystopian science fiction and film noir. Although set far in the future on another planet, there are no special effects or elaborate sets; in spite of , the movie was filmed in real locations in Paris by cameraman Raoul Coutard , Godard usual, in precious white and black photography , the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings represent the city's interiors . Suspenseful and thrilling musical score by Paul Misraky . This low-budgeted motion picture is originally directed by Jean Luc Godard who created various masterpieces of the Nouvelle vague as ¨A Bout De Suffle , Pierrot Le Fou and La Chinoise ¨ . ¨Lemmy Caution¨ won the Golden Bear award of the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965 but is recommended for New Wave fans , only .
Eddie Constantine came to the film through producer André Michelin, who had the actor under contract , he is good as super private-eye in this jumbled New Wave film . Constantine had become a popular actor in France and Germany through his portrayal of tough-guy detective Lemmy Caution in a series of earlier films and the character was originally created by British pulp novelist Peter Cheyney . It's Sam Spade type of story with Science-Fiction leanings and stretching rather far for some of the plot points . The picture is full of cinematic and literary references as Jorge Luis Borges , Raymond Chandler , and George Orwell , adding comic-book style . Like most of Godard's films, the performances and dialog in Alphaville were substantially improvised . Alphaville mingles the genres of Dystopian science fiction and film noir. Although set far in the future on another planet, there are no special effects or elaborate sets; in spite of , the movie was filmed in real locations in Paris by cameraman Raoul Coutard , Godard usual, in precious white and black photography , the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings represent the city's interiors . Suspenseful and thrilling musical score by Paul Misraky . This low-budgeted motion picture is originally directed by Jean Luc Godard who created various masterpieces of the Nouvelle vague as ¨A Bout De Suffle , Pierrot Le Fou and La Chinoise ¨ . ¨Lemmy Caution¨ won the Golden Bear award of the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965 but is recommended for New Wave fans , only .