Top billed cast

1. 

   Jean Négroni

   Narrator (voice)

2. 

   Hélène Chatelain

3. 

   Davos Hanich

4. 

   Jacques Ledoux

5. 

   André Heinrich

6. 

   Jacques Branchu

7. 

   Pierre Joffroy

8. 

   Étienne Becker

9. 

   Philbert von Lifchitz

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Reviews

A review by tmdb76622195

Written by tmdb76622195 on 2023-09-30

This French short film, made in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, tells the story of an unnamed man who travels through time looking for help for the destroyed city of Paris. It served as the basis for "Twelve Monkeys," and, I theorize, may have kick started the central idea in "The Time Traveler's Wife." Translated as "The Pier," the film opens on a Parisian airport pier, where people can watch planes take off and land. The film has no dialogue aside from the narrator and some hushed whispering, so we are told that the unnamed Man (Davos Hanich) remembers being at the airport as a child bef...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• paris, france
• nuclear war
• post-apocalyptic future
• paris orly airport
• time travel
• radioactivity
• black and white
• short film