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 |
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optical |
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mono |
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Dolby |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 1 |
Series |
Classic collection
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Criterion collection ; 196
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Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
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Criterion collection ; 196.
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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.
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Man-woman relationships. |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Subject |
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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War and motion pictures. |
Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Feature films.
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Foreign films -- France.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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Added Author |
Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014.
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Kamenka, Sacha, 1910-1970.
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Shirakawa, Takeo.
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Halfon, Samy.
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Duras, Marguerite.
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Riva, Emmanuèle.
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Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995.
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Dassas, Stella.
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Barbaud, Pierre.
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Fresson, Bernard, 1931-2002.
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Takahashi, Michio.
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Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.
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Delerue, Georges, 1925-1992.
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Fusco, Giovanni, 1906-1968.
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Collery, Gerard.
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Argos Films.
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Como Films.
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Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.
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Pathe Overseas Productions.
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Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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ISBN |
0780026934 |
Music No. |
HIR050 Home Vision Entertainment |
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