Chris Marker - La Jetée / 1962

La Jetée is a 1962 French Science Fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film runs for 28 minutes and it is in black and white.


A man, (Davos Hanich) is a prisoner in the aftermath of the Third World War, in a destroyed, post-apocalyptic Paris where survivors live in the underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. Scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods ' to call past and future to the rescue of the present'.


Directed by Chris Marker
Produced by Anatole Dauman
Written by Chris Marker
Narrated by Jean Négroni
Starring Helene Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux
Music by Trevor Duncan
Cinematography Chris Marker
Editing by Jean Rvael
Release date(s) 1962
Running time 28 minute
Country France