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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Screenplay by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Based on | Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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| Cinematography | Raoul Coutard |
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| Distributed by | Athos Films |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire[1] (lit. 'The Chinese, or, Rather, in the Chinese Manner: A Film in the Making'), commonly referred to simply as La Chinoise, is a 1967 French political docufiction film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard about a group of young Maoist activists in Paris.
La Chinoise is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel Demons (also known as The Possessed). In the novel, five disaffected citizens, each representing a different ideological persuasion and personality type, conspire to overthrow the Russian imperial regime through a campaign of sustained revolutionary violence. The film, set in contemporary Paris and largely taking place in a small apartment, is structured as a series of personal and ideological dialogues dramatizing the interactions of five French university students—three young men and two young women—belonging to a radical Maoist group called the "Aden Arabie Cell" (named after the novel Aden, Arabie by Paul Nizan). The film won the Grand Jury Prize in 1967 Venice Film Festival.[2]
- ^ "La chinoise (1967)". MUBI. 11 August 2019. Archived from the original on 8 November 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ^ "Venice Film Festival 1967". mubi.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.