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Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) More at IMDbPro »

• Professors Heckel and Jeckell are named after the cartoon birds "Heckle and Jeckle", created by U.S. animator Paul Terry (of "Terrytoons" fame).
  
  
• Professor von Braun's real name, Leonard Nosferatu, is a tribute to F.W. Murnau's silent film, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922).
  
  
• Despite the fact that the film is a work of science fiction and supposed to be in a city of the future, all the sets were existing locations in Paris in 1965, and all the weapons are conventional firearms.
  
  
• Godard originally wanted Roland Barthes for the role of Professor von Braun.
  
  
• The line by Alpha60 that begins "Time is the substance of which I am made" is paraphrased from the 1946 essay "A New Refutation of Time" by famous Argentinean writer and fantasist Jorge Luis Borges, which reads: "Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges."
  
  
• Jean-Luc Godard appropriated both the title character and the actor Eddie Constantine from a popular French series of kiss-kiss-bang-bang films released from 1953 (La môme vert de gris (1953)) to 1963 (À toi de faire... mignonne (1963)).
  
  
• Cameo: [Jean-Pierre Léaud] [makes an uncredited cameo as the hotel clerk who brings breakfast to Lemmy and Natasha at around 68 minutes through the film.]
  
  
• Banned in all Pakistan's cinemas: 10th July 1970.
  
  

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