It tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time pass by utilizing the series of filmed photo developed as a photo-montage of varying pace by having limited narration using single one brief moving image.

Due to its brevity it typically accompanies an additional film; Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965) was the film it was 1st freed sustaining.

Terry Gilliam's 1995 film Twelve Monkeys was inspired by and loosely according to La Jetée.

A plot is that a survivors of ruined Paris live underground at Chaillot. It the food and drug administration time travel, hoping to send someone back to prior to World War III to recover food, medicine, or even energy for the present, "to summon the past and future to the aid of the present". the traveler occurs as male captive, his undefined however obsessional childhood memory of witnessing the woman when you took a violent incident on the independent terminal at Orly Airport is used when a key to his journeying back eventually. He is thrown into a past again & again; repeatedly he meets & speaks to the woman world health organization was present at Orly. When his successful passages to the past the experimenters attempt to plan him into the new, within a brief meeting he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate society. In his link to to his present he is placed aside to die however he is visited from either a new & he asks to exist as returned to his childhood Orly. He is returned & finds a violent incident he part found as a tyke was his have demise as an adult.

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