Edition |
Widescreen presentation (2.35:1). |
Description |
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
Series |
Criterion collection ; 5 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 5.
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Cast |
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay. |
Credits |
Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; editors, Marie Josèphe Yoyotte, Cécile Decugis, Michèle de Possel ; music, Jean Constantin. |
System Details |
DVD video; region 1; NTSC; Dolby digital mono. |
Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. |
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"Enhanced for widescreen tvs" -- Container. |
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Container insert includes an essay "Close to home" by film scholar Annette Insdorf. |
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Special features: optional audio commentary by cinema professor Brian Stonehill; optional audio commentary by cinema professor Robert Lachenay; "Auditions" featuring screen tests of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan (7 min.); "Cannes 1959" newsreel interview footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud at Cannes (6 min.); "Cinéastes de notre temps" television program excerpt featuring interviews with Truffaut and friends (23 min.); "Cinépanorama" television excerpt interview of Truffaut (7 min.); theatrical release trailer (4 min.) |
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"Janus Films"--Container. |
Summary |
Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen. |
Audience |
Not rated. |
Language |
In French with optional English subtitles. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Local Note |
WNPLFFDVD |
Subject |
Parent and child -- Drama.
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Teacher-student relationships -- Drama.
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Criminal behavior -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Feature films -- France.
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Foreign films -- France.
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Thrillers (Television programs) -- France.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures) -- France.
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Added Author |
Truffaut, François.
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Charlot, Georges.
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Moussy, Marcel, 1924-1995.
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Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 1944-
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Maurier, Claire.
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Rémy, Albert, 1911-1967.
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Constantin, Jean.
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S.E.D.I.F.
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Films du carrosse (Firm)
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Janus Films.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Note |
Title on container: François Truffaut's The 400 blows |
Added Title |
Quatre cents coups |
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Four hundred blows |
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400 coups |
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400 blows |
ISBN |
1559409738 |
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9781559409735 |
Standard No. |
715515017527 |
Music No. |
CC1625D The Criterion Collection |
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