Fille de l'eau. Nana. Sur un air de Charleston. Petite marchande d'allumettes. Marseillaise. Testament du Docteur Cordelier. Caporal épinglé.
Notes:
First five films presented in full screen (4x3); Le caporal épinglé presented in widescreen (16x9). "Nana" is based on the novel by Emile Zola; "The little match girl" is based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen; "The doctor's horrible experiment" is based on R.L. Stevenson's novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Goethe's Faust; "The elusive corporal" is based on the novel by Jacques Perret. Release date: Apr. 24, 2007. Bonus featurette: "Jean Renoir, an auteur to remember," featuring interviews with Martin Scorsese, Michael Ballhaus, Alain Renoir, and others.
Contents:
Disc 1. La fille de l'eau = Whirlpool of fate (1925) / Les Films Jean Renoir ; screenplay, Pierre Lestringuez ; with Catherine Hessling, Pierre Philippe, Marc Rosaert (72 min.) -- Nana (1926) / Films Renoir ; screenplay, Pierre Lestringuez ; with Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, Jean Angelo (130 min.) -- Disc 2. Sur an air de Charleston = Charleston parade (1927) / Neo-Film ; screenplay, Pierre Lestringuez ; with Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins (20 min.) -- La petite marchande d'allumettes = The little match girl / directed by Jean Renoir and Jean Tedesco ; screenplay, Jean Renoir ; with Catherine Hessling, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby, Amy Wells, Ann Wells (33 min.) -- La Marseillaise (1938) / Jean Renoir Company ; screenplay, Jean Renoir ; with Louis Jouvet, Lise Delemare, Pierre Renoir (132 min.) -- Disc 3. Le testament du Docteur Cordelier = The doctor's horrible experiment (1959) / screenplay and dialogues, Jean Renoir ; with Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Billis, Jean Topart (97 min.) -- Le caporal épinglé = The elusive corporal (1962) / screenplay and adaptation, Jean Renoir, Guy Lefranc, Charles Spaak ; with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich (96 min.).
Summary:
Whirlpool of fate: after the suspicious death of her father a young girl runs away from her brutal uncle and joins a gypsy camp. Nana: A women rises from poverty to become a dance hall queen and courtesan in 1860s Paris, destroying the lives of the men who fall in love with her. Charleston: shows the journey of a man in blackface to a post-Apocalyptic Paris, where he meets a girl who teaches him the Charleston, and they leave together in his spaceship. The little match girl: the visions seen by a poor match seller as she lights her matches one by one to keep from freezing to death. La Marseillaise: a dramatization of the French Revolution, from the period immediately preceeding it in 1789 up to the first bloody confrontation. The doctor's horrible experiment: experimental fantasy about a Jekyll/Hyde-type psychiatrist/lunatic creating havoc in 1950s Paris. The elusive corporal: set in a German P.O.W. camp in 1940, this is the story of a French corporal who is determined to escape to return to Paris and fight once more.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)123197717
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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