Le joli mai / Sofra Productions, Icarus Films présentent ; Sofracima présente ; un film de Chris Marker et Pierre Lhomme ; librettiste, Catherine Varlin.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Marker, Chris, 1921-2012, film director, screenwriter.

Lhomme, Pierre, 1930-2019, film director, director of photography.

Varlin, Catherine, screenwriter.

Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985, narrator.

Montand, Yves, 1921-1991, narrator.

Sofra Productions, production company.

Sofracima (Firm), production company.

Icarus Films, distributor, production company.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

History.

Social aspects.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--History--1944-.

Algeria--History--Revolution, 1954-1962--Social aspects.

Algeria.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (145 min.) : digital, sound, black and white

monochrome

Other Title:

English title: Lovely month of May

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018]

Language Note:

In English and French with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, Le Joli Mai documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.

Contents:

Premiëre partie. Priere sur la Tower Eiffel

Deuxième partie. Le retour de Fantomas.

Participant:

Narration by Simone Signoret (English version) and Yves Montand (French version).

Credits:

Musicien, Michel Legrand ; hommes l'image, Etienne Becker, Denys Clerval, Pierre Villemain, Pierre Lhomme ; montage, Eva Zora, Annie Meunier, Madeleine Lecompère.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Restored with the support of CNC; 20 minutes from the original have been cut with the permission of Chris Marker.

Originally issued as a motion picture in France in 1963 ; previously released in 2013.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed March 6, 2018).

Publisher Number:

if-mai Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.