Alphaville

Alphaville English Language Release Poster Country France Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Release Date 1965 Language French Studio André Michelin Productions Filmstudio Chaumiane Main Cast Character Actor Lemmy Caution Eddie Constantine Natacha von Braun Anna Karina Henri Dickson Akim Tamiroff Prof. Leonard Nosferatu alias von Braun Howard Vernon

Alphaville (full French title Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution) is a B&W 1965 science fiction film about an American private detective who goes to a futuristic city on another planet that has outlawed all emotions and expressions. Like many science fiction films of the time, the authors predicted that our world would be far more dystopian and futuristic than it has become. Since the protagonist is a World War II veteran (and not an old man), the future society depicted here happens in the "1970s". The director was famed French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. The American Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) seeks a scientist and eventually meets up with the man's daughter, Natacha von Braun (Anna Karina), as a way to find him. The tension of a building love between the man and the woman in a society that has outlawed love was a common theme in SF literature of the time, the most obvious to many people being the doomed love story in the book and film 1984.

The following weapons were used in the film Alphaville:

Wz. 35 Vis

Secret Agent 003 Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) carries a Wz. 35 Vis pistol.

Wz. 35 Vis - 9x19mm

Lemmy Caution draws his pistol from below the pillow in the scene in the hotel. The slide mounted safety, a typical feature of the Vis pistol, can be seen.

Lemmy holds his pistol in the same scene.

Lemmy confronts Alphaville police agents with the pistol in hand.

A close-up of the firing pistol.

The muzzle is seen.

Lemmy threatens a driver of police car.

Lemmy holds his pistol on a promotional image depicting the final scene.

The pistol is seen on a promotional image.

Unidentified pistol

In one scene a police agent fires at Lemmy Caution. His pistol is seen only in distance.

Sten Mk III

Alphaville's nonconformists are executed by being shot in the back with a Sten Mk III submachine gun, fitted with Mk II Canadian skeleton stock.

Sten Mk III - 9x19mm. Unlike the sample, the screen gun is fitted with a skeleton stock.

An executor holds a Sten after firing at a man sentenced to death. The shape of the front section of the barrel shroud and the front sight allows to identify the Sten as Mk III rather than Mk I.

M1 Carbine

The personnel of Alphaville security force are armed with M1 Carbines.

M1 Carbine - .30 Carbine

A female guard in the Ministry building.

A guard in the hall of executions.