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1965 · FILM

Alphaville

Lemmy Caution, a hard‑boiled secret agent, infiltrates the ultra‑logical city of Alphaville to assassinate the mad scientist behind its oppressive supercomputer, risking his life—and his heart—as he battles an emotionless regime that will stop at nothing to erase love.

Suddenly the word is Alphaville... and a secret agent is in a breathless race against the Masters of the Future.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
99 min
Language
FR
ComedyDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word "love."

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Agnes GuillemotShot by Raoul CoutardScored by Paul Misraki

Box Office

1965 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$47K

Budget$220K
Worldwide gross$47K
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Alphavillede
  • Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Cautionde
  • Jean Luc Godard: Alphavillede
  • Lemmy Caution gegen Alpha 60de
  • Alphavilleen
  • Agente Lemmy Caution, missione Alphavilleit

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