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Fanfan la Tulipe / Filmsonor société anonyme présente ; un film de Christian-Jaque ; scénario original de René Wheeler et René Fallet ; adaptation de Christian-Jaque, Henri Jeanson, René Wheeler ; dialogues de René Wheeler ; production dirigée par Alexandre Mnouchkine ; une co-production franco-italiennne, Filmsonor S.A., Films Ariane, Amato Produzione.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 278 DVD + booklet
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LIBRA DVD 004 166 disc + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 451.
- Criterion collection ; 451
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Soldiers.
- France.
- Soldiers--France--18th century--Drama.
- Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774--Drama.
- Louis.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Action and adventure films.
- Swashbuckler films.
- Romantic comedy films.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([13] pages; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In French or dubbed English, with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, NTSC; full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV's army to avoid a forced marriage to a local woman and finds himself trying to get out of sticky situations with an imposter fortune-teller, who has predicted that he will win the hand of Louis' daughter.
- Participant:
- Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Geneviève Page, Sylvie Pelayo, Olivier Hussenot, Henri Rollan, Nerio Bernardi, Jean Marc Tennberg.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Christian Matras ; editor, Jacques Desagneaux ; music, Maurice Thiriet, Georges Van Parys.
- Notes:
- DVD of the motion picture originally produced in 1952.
- Special features: Gérard Philipe: star, idol, legend (ca. 27 min.); a clip from the 1997 colorized version; new essay by Kenneth Turan in booklet.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781604650785
- 1604650788
- OCLC:
- 261599782
- Publisher Number:
- 715515033022
- CC1773D The Criterion Collection
- Online:
- Connect to reviews of this title online.
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