

La Jetée
A man's obsession with an image of his past
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
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- Language
- French
- paris, france
- nuclear war
- post-apocalyptic future
- paris orly airport
- time travel
- radioactivity
- black and white
- short film
Top billed cast
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRNew York City, New York27 Oct 1967
- TheatricalNRRe-release10 Oct 2003
- PremiereHarvard Film Archive17 Oct 2013
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical159 Feb 1970
FinlandFI
- TVK-1616 Feb 1967
- TheatricalK-1617 Feb 1984
FranceFR
- Theatrical1216 Feb 1962
- TV18 Sept 2010
GermanyDE
- TVWest Germany31 Mar 1965
ItalyIT
- PremiereTrieste Sci-fi Film Festival13 Jul 1963
- PremiereIl Cinema Ritrovato27 Jun 2018
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTG1 Oct 2013
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1512 Sept 1965
- PremiereUppsala International Short Film Festival27 Oct 2001
SwitzerlandCH
- PremiereLocarno Film Festival28 Jul 1963
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La Jetée was released on 16 February 1962.
Audience reviews
2- C9/10
Cyberknight
9/29/2019
The 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 greyscale images.
- T8/10
tmdb76622195
9/30/2023
This 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 kick started the central idea in "The Time Traveler's Wife." Translated as "The Pier," the film opens on a Parisian airport pier, where people can watch planes take off and…
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