The Carabineers
Synopsis
Les Carabiniers (1963) tells the story of two poor men called to serve in battle, lured by promises of the world’s riches. Ulysses (Marino Mase) and Michelangelo (Albert Juross) receive letters from the king of their fictional country that allow them to have complete freedom from consequence while fighting in the war, in return for anything they desire —swimming pools, Maseratis, women— at the enemy’s expense.
Their wives, Venus and Cleopatra (Catherine Ribeiro and Genevieve Galea) encourage them to fight when they hear about the riches. They leave and cross the battlefields and villages, destroying and pillaging as they wish. The pair’s exploits are recounted through postcards sent to their wives, telling tales of the horrors of battle. The previously idealistic idea that the men have of war disintegrates, as they are still poor and now wounded. They return home with a suitcase full of postcards of the splendors of the world that they have fought for, and are told by army officials that they must wait until the war ends to receive their pay.
One day, the sky explodes with sparks, and the couples race into town, believing that the war has ended. Ulysses and Michelangelo are informed by their superiors that their king has lost the war, and that all of the war criminals must be punished. The two men are then shot for their crimes.
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- Executive Producers : Marceau-Cocinor, Rome-Paris Films
- Co-production : Laetitia Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : StudioCanal Films Limited
- French distribution : Cocinor
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Gruault, Roberto Rossellini
- Director of Photography : Raoul Coutard
- Music Composer : Philippe Arthuys
- Assistant directors : Charles Bitsch, Jean-Paul Savignac, Barbet Schroeder
- Editors : Agnès Guillemot, Lila Lakshmanan
- Sound Recordist : Jacques Maumont
- Associate producers : Georges De Beauregard, Carlo Ponti
- Production Manager : Roger Scipion
- Production Designer : Jean-Jacques Fabre
- Director of Photography : Claude Beausoleil
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy)
- Production year : 1963
- French release : 31/05/1963
- Runtime : 1 h 20 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 27010
- Visa issue date : 23/02/1990
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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Critical responses
Writing about the film in Harpers Magazine in 1969, the critic Pauline Kael declared it, "hell to watch for the first hour...exciting to think about after because its one good sequence, the long picture-postcard sequence near the end, is so incredible and so brilliantly prolonged. The picture has been crawling and stumbling along and then it climbs a high wire and walks it and keeps walking it until we're almost dizzy from admiration.The tight rope is rarely stretched so high in movies..."
In popular culture
The renowned author and critic Susan Sontag referenced the film in her 1977 collection of essays On Photography. With respect to the "two sluggish lumpen-peasants" returning home bearing postcards of the treasures of the world instead of tangible treasure, Sontag noted that "Godard's gag vividly parodies the equivocal magic of the photographic image."
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