artwork [lithos] Karl Bayer
booklet editor [text-books. edited with] Emmanuel Teillet
booklet editor [text-books. edited with] Florian Ganslmeier
booklet editor [text-books. edited with] Hanns Zischler
booklet editor [text-books. edited with] Vera Teichmann
booklet editor [text-books] Bettina Blumenberg
coordinator [production coordination with] Philippe Brunner
coordinator [production coordination] Sandro Kancheli
design [cover design], layout [text-layout] Catherine Hersberger
design [package design] Bettina Bollmann
directed by [realization], screenwriter, narrator, edited by [montage], liner notes [interviewee] Jean-Luc Godard
edited by, producer Manfred Eicher
liner notes [essay], liner notes, liner notes [interviewer] Jonathan Rosenbaum
liner notes [text-books, english translation] John Howe
liner notes [text-books, german translation] Hanns Zischler
tracks 1-1 music by Anita O'Day
tracks 3-1, 4-2 music by Anton Webern
tracks 1-1, 2-1 music by Arthur Honegger
tracks 1-1, 3-2, 4-1, 5-2 music by Arvo Pärt
tracks 2-1, 3-1 music by Bernard Herrmann
tracks 1-1, 2-1, 3-2, 4-1 music by Béla Bartók
tracks 1-1 music by Camille Saint-Saëns
tracks 4-2 music by Carlo Gesualdo
tracks 3-2, 4-2 to 5-2 music by David Darling
tracks 3-1 music by Dino Saluzzi
tracks 2-1, 3-1, 4-2 music by Dmitri Shostakovich
tracks 1-1 music by Franz Liszt
tracks 1-1 music by Franz Schubert
tracks 1-1 music by Georges Bizet
tracks 1-1, 4-1 music by Giacomo Puccini
tracks 3-1, 4-2, 5-1 music by Giya Kancheli
tracks 1-1, 4-2 music by Gustav Mahler
tracks 4-1 music by Heinz Holliger
tracks 1-1, 2-1, 3-2 music by Igor Stravinsky
tracks 1-1 to 4-1 music by Johann Sebastian Bach
tracks 2-1 music by John Coltrane
tracks 4-1 music by Keith Jarrett
tracks 5-1, 5-2 music by Ketil Bjørnstad
tracks 1-2, 2-1 music by Leonard Cohen
tracks 1-1, 3-2, 4-2 music by Ludwig van Beethoven
tracks 3-1 music by Meredith Monk
tracks 3-2 music by Paco Ibañez
tracks 1-1 to 4-2 music by Paul Hindemith
tracks 4-1 music by Robert Schumann
tracks 4-1 music by Roberto Cocciante
remix François Musy
typography [typesetting] SchumacherGebler
voice [interpretation] Alain Cuny
voice [interpretation] André Malraux
voice [interpretation] Anne-Marie Miéville
voice [interpretation] Bérangère Allaux
voice [interpretation] David Warrilow
voice [interpretation] Ezra Pound
voice [interpretation] Geneviève Pasquier
voice [interpretation] Jean-Luc Godard
voice [interpretation] Jean-Pierre Gos
voice [interpretation] Julie Delpy
voice [interpretation] Juliette Binoche
voice [interpretation] Paul Celan
voice [interpretation] Sabine Azéma
voice [interpretation] Serge Daney
Phonographic Copyright (p) Jean-Luc Godard
Copyright (c) Jean-Luc Godard
Phonographic Copyright (p) ECM Records
Copyright (c) ECM Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) ECM Records GmbH
Made By Universal M & L, Germany
Histoire(s) du cinéma - as TV series/video essay - was made for Canal+, ARTE and Gaumont, from 1988 to 1998. The work subdivides into four chapters of two parts each. Of those four chapters, the first was broadcasted on five European channels simultaneously, the three others have been screened at film festivals. The series was shown as part of an installation at Documenta X, the interdisciplinary arts festival in Kassel, Germany, in 1997. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has screened each episode as it has become available.
This edition released by ECM New Series takes the form of a boxed set comprising five CDs with the complete soundtrack of Histoire(s) du cinéma and four hardcover books which include the full text of Godard's narration, with German and English translations, as well as an essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. ISBN 3-00-005329-8.


Histoire(s) du cinéma
The complete soundtrack


Histoire(s) du cinéma 1
chapitre un (a)
toutes les histoires
Kapitel eins (a)
alle Geschichten
chapter one (a)
all stories

chapitre un (b)
une histoire seule
Kapitel eins (b)
eine Geschichte allein
chapter one (b)
one story only

Histoire(s) du cinéma 2
chapitre deux (a)
seul le cinéma
Kapitel zwei (a)
allein das Kino
chapter two (a)
the cinema only

chapitre deux (b)
fatale beauté
Kapitel zwei (b)
fatale Schönheit
chapter two (b)
fatal beauty

Histoire(s) du cinéma 3
chapitre trois (a)
la monnaie de l'absolu
Kapitel drei (a)
das Geld des Absoluten
chapter thee (a)
the currency of the absolute

chapitre trois (b)
une nouvelle vague
Kapitel drei (b)
eine neue Welle
chapter three (b)
a new wave

Histoire(s) du cinéma 4
chapitre quatre (a)
le contrôle de l'univers
Kapitel vier (a)
Kontrolle des Universums
chapter four (a)
control of the universe

chapitre quatre (b)
les signes parmi nous
Kapitel vier (b)
Zeichen unter uns
chapter four (b)
signs amongst us


© ℗ 1999 Jean-Luc Godard – ECM Records GmbH (on back of the box)
℗ 1999 ECM Records GmbH (on discs)
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 02516 (On Discs)
Label Code: LC 2516 (On Box)
SPARS Code: DDD
Other: ECM 1706 (Catalog Number Disc 1)
Other: 465 152-2 (Catalog Number Disc 1)
Other: ECM 1707 (Catalog Number Disc 2)
Other: 465 153-2 (Catalog Number Disc 2)
Other: ECM 1708 (Catalog Number Disc 3)
Other: 465 154-2 (Catalog Number Disc 3)
Other: ECM 1709 (Catalog Number Disc 4)
Other: 465 155-2 (Catalog Number Disc 4)
Other: ECM 1710 (Catalog Number Disc 5)
Other: 465 156-2 (Catalog Number Disc 5)