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Title La femme du boulanger / Les Films Marcel Pagnol présentent ; film de Marcel Pagnol ; directeur de la production, Charles Pons.

Publication Info. [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD BAKER'S WIFE    Check Shelf
Edition DVD special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm)
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in. rda
monochrome rdacc
black and white
stamping rdapm
Description digital rdatr
optical rdarm
mono rdacpc
Dolby rdaspc
full screen rdaar
NTSC rdabs
video file rdaft
DVD video
region 1 rdare
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection 986
Criterion collection ; 986.
System Details DVD; NTSC; region 1; 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital monaural.
Language French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Cast Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, [Fernand] Charpin, Robert Vattier, Charles Blavette, Robert Bassac, Maupi, Charles Moulin, Edouard Delmont.
Credits Director of photography, Georges Benoît ; editor, Suzanne de Troeye ; music, Vincent Scotto.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1938.
Based upon a novel by Jean Giono.
Full screen (aspect ratio 1.37:1).
Restored version done by La Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Films-MPC in 2016.
Summary An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker whose wife has run off wirth a shepherd. Because the baker is upset and cannot bring himself to work, the scandal snowballs and engulfs the entire town.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Note Special features: Selected-scene audio commentary featuring film scholar Brett Bowles; introduction by Pagnol from 1967; excerpt from a 1966 television interview with Pagnol, from the program Cinéastes de notre temps; short profile on the film from a local French news program from 1967; in booklet, essay by Ginette Vincendeau.
Subject Bakers -- France -- Provence -- Drama.
Villages -- France -- Provence -- Drama.
Adultery -- Social aspects -- Drama.
Spouses -- France -- Provence -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Marriage. (OCoLC)fst01010443
Genre/Form Comedy films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710291
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
Added Author Pagnol, Marcel, 1895-1974, film director, screenwriter, interviewee (espression)
Pons, Charles, film producer.
Raimu, 1883-1946, actor.
Leclerc, Ginette, 1912-1992, actor.
Charpin, Fernand, 1887-1944, actor.
Vattier, Robert, 1906-1982, actor.
Blavette, Charles, 1902-1967, actor.
Bassac, Robert, 1910-1940, actor.
Maupi, 1881-1949, actor.
Benoît, Georges, 1883-1942, director of photography.
Troeye, Suzanne de, editor of moving image work.
Scotto, Vincent, 1876-1952, composer (expression)
Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948- essayist.
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Giono, Jean, 1895-1970. Jean le bleu.
Criterion Collection (Firm), pubisher.
Note English title on container and disc label: The Baker's wife
Added Title Container of (work): Femme du boulanger (Motion picture)
ISBN 9781681436111
1681436116
Standard No. 715515232111
Music No. CC3048DDVD The Criterion Collection
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