For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

Carte blanche to Radu Jude: Sauve la vie (qui peut), Sauve la vie (qui peut)

Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Witt

Switzerland, Netherlands, 1981, Color, Black and white, 102’

Digital reconstruction by film historian Michael Witt of a remarkable montage film created by Jean-Luc Godard, composed from his film Every Man for Himself (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) and reels from five other films: Old and New (also known as The General Line) by Sergei M. Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov (1929), The Moving Day by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton (1922), La Terra Trema by Luchino Visconti (1948), and Man of Marble by Andrzej Wajda (1977).

Film screened in the frame of the carte blanche to Radu Jude

Technical sheet

  • Editing:
    Jean-Luc Godard
  • Contact:
    Michael Witt