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Hiroshima mon amour / Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; Argos Films ...[and others] ; scenario et dialoques, Marguerite Duras ; directeurs de production, Anatole Dauman ..[and others] ; réalisation, Alain Resnais.
LIBRA DVD 007 121 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 196.
- Criterion collection ; 196
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- New wave films.
- France.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--Drama.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War and motion pictures.
- New wave films--France.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Special édition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Chicago, IL] : Home Vision Cinema, [2003]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby Digital.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Participant:
- Emanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
- Credits:
- Directors of photography, Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0780026934
- OCLC:
- 52479911
- Publisher Number:
- 037429180723
- HIR050 Home Vision Entertainment
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