Alphaville - memories. Godard s film is indeed interesting and holds up very well in the 90s. When the film was released in Norway in 1965, very few cinemagoers had heard about Jean Luc Godard - Eddie Constantine, on the other hand, was a great sub-culture hero, having starred in a long row of French B-action films as secret agent Lemmy Caution. At the local B-film venue in Trondheim at the time, the students at the Technical Institution would arrange an "Eddieval", dress up as gangsters and fire powder cap guns at the screen, cheering for Eddie as he seduced femmes fatales and beat up and shot the bad guys. When a new Eddie-film was announced, the same ritual followed and the few art film freaks in the theater enjoyed watching how the boisterous mood gave way to bewilderment, confusion and, finally, rejection by the hundreds of loyal Eddie-fans as the mysteries of "Alphaville" unravelled. Here the cultural collision, no doubt intended by Godard, worked perfectly. About the later career of Eddie Constantine, he actually repaid his loyal Norwgeians fans by appearing in a cameo role in a low budget turkey in the 80s...... Bjorn Sorenssen University of Trondheim, Norway [log in to unmask]