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Title Hiroshima mon amour / Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Motion Picture et Pathe Overseas Productions ; réalisation, Alain Resnais ; scenario et dialogues, Marguerite Duras ; directeurs de production, Sacha Kamenka, Shirakawa Takeo ; producteur délégué, Samy Halfon.

Publication Info. [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2003.
1959.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR    DUE 03-28-24
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Balcony  AV DVD 848 H668H    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD FOREIGN HIROSHIMA    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.).
Series Criterion collection ; 196
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 196.
Note Orginally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
System Details DVD, region 1, fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Cast Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
Credits Directors of photography, Takahashi Michio, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
Audience Not rated.
Summary A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Note Special features: audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie ; vintage interviews with director Alain Resnais and actress Emmanuelle Riva ; new video interview with Emmanuelle Riva ; excerpts from Marguerite Duras' screenplay annotations, narrated over clips from the film ; isolated music and effects track ; illustrated booklet, featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones, excerpts from a 1959 "Cahiers du Cinéma" round-table discussion about the film, an essay on composer Giovanni Fusco by Russell Lack, and character portraits by Duras.
Awards Cannes Film Festival, 1959
Language French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama.
Indexed Term Relations entre hommes et femmes Drame
Genre/Form Feature films.
Foreign films -- France.
Foreign language films.
Added Author Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014. Director.
Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970.
Shirakawa, Takeo.
Halfon, Samy.
Duras, Marguerite.
Riva, Emmanuèle. Actor.
Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995. Actor.
Dassas, Stella. Actor.
Barbaud, Pierre. Actor.
Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002. Actor.
Takahashi, Michio.
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992.
Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968.
Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN 0780026934
9780780026933
Standard No. 037429180723
Music No. HIR050 Home Vision Entertainment
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