C4500 ; OU PLUTOT A LA CHINOISE;; (, 1967) (Other titles: The Chinese girl; La cinese)

Credits: director/writer, Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: , Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michel Semeniako. Summary: Melodrama set in and Nanterre in the summer of 1967. Five Maoist students and peasants, inspired by events in Vietnam, form the Rosa Luxemburg cell. Their inability to agree on a course of action leads them in divergent directions.

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