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Title Hiroshima mon amour / Argos Films, Como Films, Daiei Motion Picture et Pathe Overseas Productions ; réalisation, Alain Resnais ; scenario et dialoques, Marguerite Duras ; directeurs de production, Sacha Kamenka, Shirakawa Takeo ; producteur délégué, Samy Halfon.

Publication Info. [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Entertainment ; [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Video  PN1997 .H47 2003    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Dual-layer ed.
Description 1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Physical Medium monochrome
Description digital
optical
mono
Dolby
video file
DVD video
region 1
Series Classic collection
Criterion collection ; 196
Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Criterion collection ; 196.
System Details DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital mono.
Cast Emanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
Credits Directors of photography, Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Note Special features: audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie ; vintage interviews with director Alain Resnais and actress Emmanuelle Riva ; new video interview with Emmanuelle Riva ; excerpts from Marguerite Duras' screenplay annotations, narrated over clips from the film ; isolated music and effects track ; illustrated booklet, featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones, excerpts from a 1959 "Cahiers du Cinéma" round-table discussion about the film, an essay on composer Giovanni Fusco by Russell Lack, and character portraits by Duras.
Language French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama.
World War (1939-1945)
War and motion pictures.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Foreign films -- France.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014.
Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970.
Shirakawa, Takeo.
Halfon, Samy.
Duras, Marguerite.
Riva, Emmanuèle.
Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995.
Dassas, Stella.
Barbaud, Pierre.
Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002.
Takahashi, Michio.
Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992.
Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968.
Collery, Gerard.
Argos Films.
Como Films.
Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.
Pathe Overseas Productions.
Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN 0780026934
Music No. HIR050 Home Vision Entertainment