JeanLuc Godard was born in Paris, the second of four children in a bourgeois FrancoSwiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from an preeminent family of Swiss bankers.1940 Godard became a naturalized citizen of Switzerland and attended the school in Lyons.1964 Godard and his wife Anna Karina formed their own production company called Anouchka Films. They shot a film called Une femme mariée, but censors forced them to reedit due to a topless sunbathing scene shot by Jacques Rozier. The censors also made Godard change the title so that it did not give the impression that this scandalous woman was the typical French wife.1968 Godard was commissioned by French television to make the film Le gai savoir. However, television producers were outraged by the product Godard produced and refused to show it. Later in that year, Godard was furious over the firing of Henri Langlois as the head of the French Cinémathèque and he left the group with JeanPierre Gorin to form the DzigaVertov group. Godard became increasingly concerned with socialist solutions to an idealist cinema, especially in providing the proletariat with the means of production and distribution. Along with other militantly political filmmakers in the DzigaVertov group, Godard published a series of CinéTracts outlining these viewpoints. He also started filming One American Movie and Communications, but neither were ever finished.

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