Story Line
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
“A man's obsession with an image of his past”
Top Cast
Jean Négroni
Narrator (voice)
Hélène Chatelain
Davos Hanich
Jacques Ledoux
André Heinrich
Jacques Branchu
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Rating
7.9/ 10
Release Date
1962-02-16
Runtime
29m
Genres
DramaRomanceScience Fiction
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Cyberknight
9/10
•9/29/2019The short film that inspired Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys" (1995). A man travels through time, to his life before World War III, guided by his persistent memories of the past. The story is thoroughly narrated, almost completely made of still greys...
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8/10
•9/30/2023This French short film, made in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, tells the story of an unnamed man who travels through time looking for help for the destroyed city of Paris. It served as the basis for "Twelve Monkeys," and, I theorize, may have ki...