Alphaville
An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet. Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the…
Alphaville
An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet. Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression. —Gene Volovich <volovich@netcom.com> In a near future, the American secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to Alphaville posing as the journalist Ivan Johnson from the Figaro-Pravda newspaper. His mission is to find the missing agent Henry Dickson and to convince Professor von Braun to come with him to Nueva York. Prof. von Braun is actually Leonard Nosferatu and has created the powerful computer Alpha 60 that has conceived the inhuman dystopian society of Alphaville, where love, conscience, poetry and emotion have been banished and words are systematically eliminated from the dictionary. Alpha 60 is also omnipresent and Lemmy has the assistance of Natacha von Braun, who is the daughter of von Braun. Soon he falls in love with Natacha but he needs to complete his mission before leaving Alphaville. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Undercover using the assumed name and identity Ivan Johnson, a reporter for Figaro-Pravda, secret agent Lemmy Caution has been dispatched from the Outer Countries and has just arrived in Alphaville, located on the other side of the galaxy. He has two contact sheets for the people he has been sent to locate. One is Henri Dickson, another agent who may have gone rogue in he not having reported back since his arrival in Alphaville. The other is Professor Léonard von Braun who Dickson was supposed to locate. Caution can see the odd behavior of the people he encounters in they all having a somewhat cold, emotionless demeanor, even the women whose sole job seems to be to seduce male visitors to Alphaville. "They" have sent Natacha von Braun to be his guide, she claiming to be the daughter of Professor von Braun, although she further claims that she has never met him and does not know his whereabouts. Caution will learn that he finding Dickson and von Braun are connected, with everything tied to Alpha 60, the supercomputer developed by the Professor, it which controls everything in Alphaville based on what it considers logical. In that logic, there is no past and no future, only a present as that present is dictated by that logic. Also, certain concepts, mostly emotions, and their associated terms are erased from public consciousness, including feelings of love. As such, Caution goes on a related mission to destroy Alpha 60 in its dystopian control over its populace. —Huggo
Alphaville
Comedy,Drama,Mystery
Film Details
An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet. Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
—Gene Volovich <volovich@netcom.com> In a near future, the American secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to Alphaville posing as the journalist Ivan Johnson from the Figaro-Pravda newspaper. His mission is to find the missing agent Henry Dickson and to convince Professor von Braun to come with him to Nueva York. Prof.
von Braun is actually Leonard Nosferatu and has created the powerful computer Alpha 60 that has conceived the inhuman dystopian society of Alphaville, where love, conscience, poetry and emotion have been banished and words are systematically eliminated from the dictionary. Alpha 60 is also omnipresent and Lemmy has the assistance of Natacha von Braun, who is the daughter of von Braun. Soon he falls in love with Natacha but he needs to complete his mission before leaving Alphaville.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Undercover using the assumed name and identity Ivan Johnson, a reporter for Figaro-Pravda, secret agent Lemmy Caution has been dispatched from the Outer Countries and has just arrived in Alphaville, located on the other side of the galaxy. He has two contact sheets for the people he has been sent to locate. One is Henri Dickson, another agent who may have gone rogue in he not having reported back since his arrival in Alphaville.
The other is Professor Léonard von Braun who Dickson was supposed to locate. Caution can see the odd behavior of the people he encounters in they all having a somewhat cold, emotionless demeanor, even the women whose sole job seems to be to seduce male visitors to Alphaville. "They" have sent Natacha von Braun to be his guide, she claiming to be the daughter of Professor von Braun, although she further claims that she has never met him and does not know his whereabouts.
Caution will learn that he finding Dickson and von Braun are connected, with everything tied to Alpha 60, the supercomputer developed by the Professor, it which controls everything in Alphaville based on what it considers logical. In that logic, there is no past and no future, only a present as that present is dictated by that logic. Also, certain concepts, mostly emotions, and their associated terms are erased from public consciousness, including feelings of love.
As such, Caution goes on a related mission to destroy Alpha 60 in its dystopian control over its populace. —Huggo.