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JEAN RENOIR COLLECTION
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| Starring: |
Ingrid Bergman,
Julien Carette,
Marcel Dalio,
Jean Daste,
Jean Dasté,
Werner Florian,
Pierre Fresnay,
Jean Gabin,
Sylvain Itkime,
Fernand Ledoux,
Gaston Modot,
Dita Parlo,
Georges Peclet,
Jean Renoir,
Simone Simon,
Erich von Stroheim
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| Format: |
DVD |
| List price:
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£0.00 |
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| Cat No: |
OPTD0867 |
| EAN: |
5060034579281 |
| Distributor: |
OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Regions: |
2 (UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East) |
| Rel. date: |
4 June, 2007 |
| Certificate: |
PG |
| Running Time: |
755 mins |
| Language: |
French |
| Description: |
Seven films by French auteur Jean Renoir. La Grande Illusion (1937) is an archetypal prison escape film, generally regarded as Jean Renoir's most popular film of the 1930s and one which, although often seen as a humane and pacifist indictment of war, offers an ambiguous perspective on class differences. Set in a WWI German prisoner-of-war camp, the film tells the story of three French soldiers, the working-class Marechal (Jean Gabin), the middle-class Jew Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) and the aristocrat senior officer Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay), who are held prisoner by Commandant Von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim). The film shows how a bond of sympathy exists more between the German Commandant and the senior French officer than between the three Frenchman of different classes. Even though Boieldieu sacrifices himself for the two others to escape, the film makes no attempt to conceal what they are returning to once their role as war-heroes is over. In 'Le Caporal Epingle' (1952), an upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940. 'La Merseillaise' (1938) is a news-reel like film about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people across the country. 'La Bete Humaine' (1938) is an adaptation of the novel by Emile Zola. Jean Gabin plays a train driver who falls in love with a colleague's wife, Séverine (Simone Simon). Her jealous husband has already murdered his wife's former lover. Jean Renoir directs this tense love triangle, which focuses on love, betrayal and violent jealousy. In 'Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier' (1959), a lawyer, Joly (Teddy Bilis) is disturbed when his friend, the eminent psychiatrist and researcher, Dr Cordelier (Jean-Louis Barrault), makes out a will leaving everything to a mysterious stranger, Opale (also played by Jean-Louis Barrault). In 'Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe (1959)', Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. Finally, in 'Elena et les Hommes' (1956), Polish countess Elena (Ingrid Bergman) falls in love with a French radical party's candidate in pre-World War I Paris - but another officer pines for her. |
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Interactive Menus |
| Genre: |
Feature
Foreign
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| No. of pieces |
7 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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