Lacombe Lucien [videorecording] / film de Louis Malle; scénario, Louis Malle, Patrick Modiano ; une co-production NEF-UPF, Vides-Film, Hallelujah-Film.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. The film is 132 min., and the special features are an additional 35 min. Special features: "Revoir Lacombe" (2005, 5 min.); "L'histoire d'un salaud, un salaud dans l'histoire," an interview with Patrick Modiano and Pierre Laborie, historian (2005, 19 min.); "Au temps du tournage," an interview with Jean-Claude Laureux (2005, 6 min.) Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Lowenadler, Thérèse Gieshe.
Summary:
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
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