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Les Carabiniers

Original title: Les carabiniers
  • 19631963
  • 1h 20m
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Les Carabiniers (1963)
ComedyDramaWar
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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
3.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
64,087
16,256
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    • Director
      • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Writers
      • Beniamino Joppolo(play "I Carabinieri")
      • Jean-Luc Godard(adaptation)
      • Jean Gruault(adaptation)
    • Stars
      • Patrice Moullet
      • Marino Masé
      • Geneviève Galéa
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Writers
      • Beniamino Joppolo(play "I Carabinieri")
      • Jean-Luc Godard(adaptation)
      • Jean Gruault(adaptation)
    • Stars
      • Patrice Moullet
      • Marino Masé
      • Geneviève Galéa
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    • 26User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Patrice Moullet
    • Michel-Ange
    • (as Albert Juross)
    Marino Masé
    Marino Masé
    • Ulysses
    • (as Marino Mase)
    Geneviève Galéa
    • Venus
    Catherine Ribeiro
    • Cleopatre
    Barbet Schroeder
    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
    Pascale Audret
    Pascale Audret
    • Girl in car
    • (uncredited)
    Roger Coggio
    Roger Coggio
    • Man in car
    • (uncredited)
    Catherine Durante
    • Heroine of the film-within-a-film
    • (uncredited)
    Wladimir Faters
    • Revolutionary
    • (uncredited)
    Jean Gruault
    • Bebe's father
    • (uncredited)
    Jean Monsigny
    • Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    Gilbert Servien
    • Soldier
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Writers
      • Beniamino Joppolo(play "I Carabinieri")
      • Jean-Luc Godard(adaptation)
      • Jean Gruault(adaptation)
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    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Narrator: Henceforth the two brothers slept for an eternity, believing the brain, in decay, functioned beyond death, and its dreams are what constitute Paradise.

    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)

    User reviews26

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    An Ugly Film on an Ugly Subject
    While this is certainly not Godard's most enjoyable work some of the negative comments here are world-class examples of point-missing.

    Godard had already shown with "A Bout de Soufflé" and "Vivre Sa Vie" that he knew how to make a film with style, romance and flair. Therefore it's clear that the crude editing and sound dubbing, continuity lapses, bad acting and overall cheapness on display here were deliberate.

    What we seem to have here is "War for Dummies". Godard spells things out as if talking to backward children and absolutely refuses to invest his subject and his protagonists with any sort of spectacle or dignity, both by giving us moronic and unsympathetic characters and by refusing the audience any catharsis or vicarious pleasure.

    Francois Truffaut once said that no war movie can be truly anti-war, since the camera automatically aestheticizes its subject. Godard here goes all-out to disprove that thesis.This does of course make the film hard to watch but it's a deliberate slap in the face, not the result of incompetence.

    Incidents from many wars are parodied - for example scenes of the women having their hair cut off refer to the treatment of French women who had consorted with Germans during the Occupation. "America" is represented by a car with tail fins and some French tower blocks, in a prefiguring of "Alphaville"s approach to location. Apparently the letters used as intertitles are genuine letters home from French troops in various conflicts, although this does not seem to be made clear in the film.

    I tend to agree that this is a film for Godard completists only and certainly not the best place to start with his work. The best comparison to make would be with Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" which takes the same crude approach, and apparently the project started life as a stage play.

    See "Weekend" for a similar approach to 'peace', only with a lot more fun and games.
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    • Release date
      • September 27, 1967 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Italy
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • The Carabineers
    • Filming locations
      • Rungis, Val-de-Marne, France
    • Production companies
      • Cocinor
      • Les Films Marceau
      • Rome Paris Films
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    • Budget
      • $140,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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