Le fond de l'air est rouge / Arte Video, Iskra, INA présentent ; avec le soutient du CNC ; Chris. Marker ; production, ISKRA, INA, Dovidis ; montage et bande sonore, Chris Marker.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Marker, Chris, 1921-2012, director, editor of moving image work, musical director, musical director.

Broadbent, Jim, narrator, narrator.

Cusack, Cyril, 1910-1993, narrator, narrator.

Kramer, Robert, 1939-1999, narrator, narrator.

Maspero, François, 1932-2015, narrator, narrator.

Montand, Yves, 1921-1991, narrator, narrator.

Périer, François, narrator, narrator.

Semprún, Jorge, narrator, narrator.

Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985, narrator, narrator.

Berio, Luciano, 1925-2003, composer (expression), composer.

Arte Video (Firm), production company, producer.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Iskra Films, production company, producer.

Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France), production company, producer.

Dovidis (Firm), production company, producer.

Lucía Films, production company, producer.

Arte éditions (Firm), publisher, distributor.

Icarus Films Home Video, publisher, distributor.

Language:

English

French

German

Portuguese

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Nineteen sixties.

Nineteen seventies.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.

Protest movements.

Czechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968.

Czechoslovakia.

History.

Allende Gossens, Salvador, 1908-1973.

Allende Gossens, Salvador.

Guevara, Che, 1928-1967.

Guevara, Che.

Debray, Régis.

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.

Castro, Fidel.

Conflicto de Vietnam, 1961-1975.

Conflicto de Vietnam, 1961-1975--Movimientos de protesta.

Czechoslovakia--Historia.

Li shi (Title).

Genre:

Experimental films.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages)

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Title on container and disc label: Grin without a cat

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Icarus Films Home Video, [2009]

Language Note:

French, English or German version (with partial subtitles), Portuguese and Spanish subtitles (over French audio).

System Details:

DVD, full screen (1.33:1), NTSC.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 0

Summary:

An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.

Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the '60s and '70s: Vietnam; Che Guevara; May '68 in Paris; Prague; Chile; and the fate of the New Left.

Contents:

Part one: Les mains fragiles = Fragile hands: 1: From Vietnam to Che's death ; 2: May 1968 and all that

Part two: Les mains coupees = Severed hands: 1: From the Prague spring to the so-called "Union of the Left " in France ; 2: From Chile to

to what?

Participant:

Voices: Jim Broadbent, Cyril Cusack, Robert Kramer, François Maspero, Yves Montand, François Périer, Jorge Semprun, Simone Signoret.

Credits:

Production, Inger Servolin ... [et al.]; music, Luciano Berio.

Notes:

Documentary.

Originally produced in France in 1977.

English version produced by Lucia Films, London, Iskra Films, Paris.

"Arte Editions"--Container.

Special feature: a 16-page booklet with text by Chris Marker, including the essay Sixties, written May, 2008.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

317890004

Publisher Number:

854565001138

00113 Icarus Films Home Video