# À bout de souffle (1960)

**German title:** Außer Atem


**Genres:** Crime, Drama

**Duration:** 90 min

**Age rating:** FSK 16

**IMDb:** [7.6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/)

**Letterboxd:** [3.9](https://letterboxd.com/film/breathless/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 95%, Popcornmeter: 89%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/breathless)

## Description

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

## Details

**Premiere:** 16 Mar 1960

**Director:** Jean-Luc Godard

**Cast:** Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Claude Mansard, Liliane Dreyfus, Michel Fabre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci

**Countries:** France

**Languages:** French, English

**Available versions:** OmU

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoICuMPOWrk)

## Showtimes in Leipzig in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-04-25 (Saturday)

- **[Schaubühne Lindenfels](/cinemas/399-schaubuhne-lindenfels.md) (Alt-West):** [2026-04-25 20:15](https://booking.cinetixx.de/frontend/#/show/1898834974/3502606481)  (OmU)