"La jetée is the story of a man who was marked by an image from his childhood. The scene, which disturbed him with its violence and whose meaning he only understood much later, took place on the tarmac at Orly, a few years before the outbreak of World War III." (Chris Marker) The narrator, speaking from a time after the end of civilisation, recalls the fragile, living images of times gone by, which culminate in the movement of a single moment: the blink of an eye of a woman who awakens from sleep as a distant summer day draws to a close. All pleasure is promised in this one moment when the image changes into movement.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.