C4500 LA CHINOISE; OU PLUTOT A LA CHINOISE;; (FRANCE, 1967) (Other titles: The Chinese girl; La cinese)
Credits: director/writer, Jean-Luc Godard. Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michel Semeniako. Summary: Melodrama set in Paris 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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