La Jetée

Year: 1962

Runtime: 29 mins

Language: French

Director: Chris Marker

RomanceScience FictionDramaHumanity and the world around usMonsters aliens sci-fi and the apocalypse

Haunted by a single photograph from his childhood, he becomes obsessed with that fleeting image. When scientists launch an experiment to salvage humanity after a world‑war‑induced apocalypse, he is forced to confront the memory, hoping it holds the key to rebuilding a shattered world.

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