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Le petit soldat / [Productions Georges de Beauregard ; Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC) ; produced by Georges de Beauregard ; written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard]
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 013 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1010.
- Criterion collection ; 1010
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Photojournalists--France--Drama.
- Photojournalists.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Torture.
- Assassination.
- Nationalism.
- Military deserters.
- Algeria.
- France.
- Military deserters--France--Drama.
- Nationalism--France--Drama.
- Assassination--France--Drama.
- Torture--France--Drama.
- France--Social conditions--1945-1995--Drama.
- Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Foreign language films -- French.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- History.
- War films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm folded to 12 x 18 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- black and white
- stamping
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- English title from subtitles: The Little soldier
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In French; optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Audio monaural.
- digital
- optical
- monaural
- Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Before his convention-shattering debut, Breathless, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in France: the use of torture in the Algerian War. Despite his lack of political convictions, a photojournalist Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forrestier becomes infatuated. Banned for two and a half years by French censors for its depiction of brutal tactics on the part of the French government and the Algerian fighters alike, Le petit soldat finds the young Godard already retooling cinema as a vehicle for existential inquiry, political argument, and ephemeral portraiture--in other words, as a medium for delivering 'truth twenty-four times per second'"--Container.
- Participant:
- Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais, László Szabó.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Raoul Coutard ; editing, Agnès Guillemot, Lila Herman, Nadine Trintignant ; music, Maurice Leroux.
- Notes:
- Title from screen; film lacks credits; production credits from container.
- Originally produced in 1963.
- Special features: High-definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Raoul Coutard; Interview with director Jean-Luc Godard from 1965; Interview with actor Michael Subor from 1963; Audio interview with Godard and Gideon Bachmann from 1961; New English subtitle translation; on insert, an essay from critic Nicholas Elliott.
- ISBN:
- 9781681436791
- 1681436795
- OCLC:
- 1128831562
- Publisher Number:
- 715515240314
- CC3107D The Criterion Collection
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