The untranslatable French title is a play on words suggesting that revolution was in the air but not on the ground. The English title, "A Grin without a Cat", has a similar meaning. Director Chris Marker has given it the subtitle "Scenes from the Third World War 1967-1977".
The letters in the company ISKRA which produced the film stand for: Image-Son-Kinescope-Realisation-Audiovisuelle which was also the name Lenin gave to his journal beginning in December of 1900.
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