 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Germany Year 90 Nine Zero" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(March 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Germany Year 90 Nine Zero | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Written by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Produced by | Nicole Ruellé |
| Starring | Eddie Constantine |
| Cinematography | Christophe Pollock |
| Edited by | Jean-Luc Godard |
Release date |
|
Running time | 62 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | French German |
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (French:Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro) is a French film directed byJean-Luc Godard and starringEddie Constantine in his signature role as detectiveLemmy Caution. This is the second film in which Godard and Constantine collaborated with the Lemmy Caution character, although it is not a sequel toAlphaville. It was also the 15th and final time that Constantine would play his signature role in 40 years.
The film was screened in competition at the48th Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal.[1]
The title is a reference to the 1948Roberto Rossellini filmGermany, Year Zero.
Just after the fall of theBerlin Wall, Lemmy Caution roams around the city aimlessly. The film is part narrative and part documentary essay picture about German history and politics.
Thirty years ago, the Allied occupying powers stationed Lemmy Caution as a sleeper agent in East Berlin under the false name Konrad Witrowsky. After a long search, he is found there by Count Zelten of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Zelten confesses that Lemmy's files have disappeared, and he has therefore been forgotten. Zelten sends Lemmy on one last journey west. On his way through the reunited Germany, he encounters well-known figures such as Charlotte Kestner and Don Quixote, who battles the dragons—in the form of bucket-wheel excavators—in an open-cast mine. He visits famous sites like the Alexander Pushkin Monument and Schiller's House, and sees newsreel footage of the events at the Dachau concentration camp. Memories of Goethe's Faust and Grimmelshausen's The Adventurous Simplicissimus reveal positive developments in Germany. Lemmy's journey, which he always commented on with quotations, ends in a hotel room where he marvels at the Bible that is always present in the bedside tables.
 | This article related to a French film of the 1990s is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |