Le silence de la mer [blu-ray] / Janus Films ; Gaumont présente ; Melville Productions ; Pierre Braunberger présente ; producteur délégué, Marcel Cartier ; adaptation et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville.
Format:
[blu-ray] /
Edition:
Blu-ray edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
24 hours in the life of a clown. Code name Melville. Melville Steps Out of the Shadows.
Notes:
Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe, Georges Patrix, Denis Sadier. From the novel by Vercors (Jean Marcel Bruller). Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. Special features: 24 hours in the life of a clown (1946, Melville's seventeen-minute first film); Melville steps out of the shadows (2010, a 42-minute documentary about Le Silence De La Mer); Code name Melville (2008, a 76-minute documentary on Melville's time in the French Resistance and his films about it); Ginette Vincendeau (new interview with film scholar Ginette Vincendeau about the film); Cinépanorama (interview with Melville aired on the April 18, 1959 episode of the French television program Cinépanorama, conducted by François Chalais).
Summary:
1941. An idealistic, naive German officer in Nazi occupied France is assigned to the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece. Their response to his presence - their only form of resistance - is complete silence.
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