Description |
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
Series |
Criterion collection ; 196 |
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Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 196.
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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.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama.
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Indexed Term |
Relations entre hommes et femmes Drame |
Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Foreign films -- France.
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Foreign language films.
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Added Author |
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014. Director.
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Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970.
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Shirakawa, Takeo.
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Halfon, Samy.
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Duras, Marguerite.
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Riva, Emmanuèle. Actor.
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Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995. Actor.
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Dassas, Stella. Actor.
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Barbaud, Pierre. Actor.
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Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002. Actor.
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Takahashi, Michio.
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Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
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Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992.
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Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968.
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Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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ISBN |
0780026934 |
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9780780026933 |
Standard No. |
037429180723 |
Music No. |
HIR050 Home Vision Entertainment |
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