Groupe Dziga Vertov

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.

An examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class-conflict and The Communist Manifesto.

In Godard and Gorin's free interpretation of the Chicago Eight trial, Judge Hoffman becomes Judge Himmler (who doodles notes on Playboy centerfolds), the Chicago Eight become microcosms of French revolutionary society, and Godard ...

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.