1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard
La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la Chinoise: un film en train de se faire (lit. 'The Chinese, or, Rather, in the Chinese Manner: A Film in the Making'), commonly referred to simply as La Chinoise, (French pronunciation: [la ʃinwaz]) is a 1967 French political docufiction film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) about a group of young Maoist activists in Paris.
La Chinoise is a loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1872 novel Demons (also known as The Possessed). In the novel, five disaffected citizens, each representing a different ideological persuasion and personality type, conspire to overthrow the Russian imperial regime through a campaign of sustained revolutionary violence. The film, set in contemporary Paris and largely taking place in a small apartment, is structured as a series of personal and ideological dialogues dramatizing the interactions of five French university students—three young men and two young women—belonging to a radical Maoist group called the "Aden Arabie Cell" (named after the novel Aden, Arabie by Paul Nizan). The film won the Grand Jury Prize in 1967 Venice Film Festival.
A film that is said to mix revolutionary heroes and comic book pop ideas.
Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.