The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west."
Direction
Godard treating 1990 Germany like found footage to be interrogated
Acting
Eddie Constantine's 28-year return as Lemmy, now pure exhaustion
Editing
Jagged cuts between documentary, fiction, and literary quotation
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard shot this in three weeks with no script, using whatever locations and people he encountered in the actual collapsing East Germany. The 'production' was essentially him and Eddie Constantine wandering around with a camera.
This is technically the FOURTH Lemmy Caution film — Godard borrowed the character from a 1950s French B-movie series, making this perhaps cinema's first 'prestige legacy sequel' decades before Top Gun: Maverick.
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