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Jean Renoir /

Jean Renoir / - Collector's edition. , France - 3 videodiscs (approximately 580 min.) : silent, and sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. - plastic 4 3/4 in.

Whirlpool of fate originally released as a motion picture in 1925; Nana originally released as a motion picture in 1926; Charleston parade originally released as a motion picture in 1927; The little match girl originally released as a motion picture in 1928; La Marseillaise originally released as a motion picture in 1938; The doctor's horrible experiment originally released as a motion picture in 1959; The elusive corporal originally released as a motion picture in 1962. "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. "Studio Canal"--Container Bonus featurette: "Jean Renoir, an auteur to remember," featuring interviews with Martin Scorsese, Michael Ballhaus, Alain Renoir, and others.

Disc 1. La fille de l'eau = Whirlpool of fate / Les Films Jean Renoir ; screenplay, Pierre Lestringuez ; adaptation Jean Renoir (72 min.) -- Nana / Films Renoir ; screenplay, Pierre Lestringuez (130 min.) -- Disc 2. Sur un air de Charleston = Charleston parade / Neo-Film ; screenplay, Pierre Lestringuez (20 min.) -- La petite marchande d'allumettes = The little match girl / directed by Jean Renoir and Jean Tedesco ; screenplay, Jean Renoir (33 min.) -- La Marseillaise / Jean Renoir Company ; Societe d'Exploitations et de Productions Cinematographiques ; Societaire de la Comedie Francaise ; screenplay, Jean Renoir (132 min.) -- Disc 3. Le testament du Docteur Cordelier = The doctor's horrible experiment / Compagnie Jean Renoir/Sofirad ; screenplay, Jean Renoir ; (97 min.) -- Le caporal épinglé = The elusive corporal / screenplay and adaptation, Jean Renoir, Guy Lefranc, Charles Spaak ; produced by Adry de Carbuccia and Roland Girard (96 min.).

Whirlpool of fate: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet, Alphonse Gibory ; silent film music, Marc Perrone. Whirlpool of fate: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet, Alphonse Gibory ; silent film music, Marc Perrone. Nana: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet, C.E. Corwin ; silent film music, Marc-Olivier Dupin. Nana: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet, C.E. Corwin ; silent film music, Marc-Olivier Dupin. Charleston parade: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet. Charleston parade: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet. Little match girl: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet ; silent film music, Marc Perrone. Little match girl: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet ; silent film music, Marc Perrone. La Marseillaise: Cinematography, Bourgoin, A. Douarinou, Maillols, J-P Alphen, J. Louis ; antique music, LaLande, Grétry, Rameau, Mozart, Bach, Rouget de Lisle ; modern music, Kosma, Sauveplane. La Marseillaise: Cinematography, Bourgoin, A. Douarinou, Maillols, J-P Alphen, J. Louis ; antique music, LaLande, Grétry, Rameau, Mozart, Bach, Rouget de Lisle ; modern music, Kosma, Sauveplane. The doctor's horrible experiment and The elusive corporal: Cinematography, Georges Leclerc ; original music, Joseph Kosma. The doctor's horrible experiment and The elusive corporal: Cinematography, Georges Leclerc ; original music, Joseph Kosma.

Whirlpool of fate: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Philippe, Marc Rosaert, Georges Terof, Mike Fockenberghe, Harold Lewingston, Maurice Touze, Pierre Champagne, Andre Derain. Nana: Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, Jean Angelo, Pierre Philippe, Valeska Gert, Claude Moore. Charleston parade: Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger, Andre Cerf, Pierre Lestringuez, Jean Renoir. Little match girl: Catherine Hessling, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby, Anny Xells. La Marseillaise: Louis Jouvet, Lise Delemare, Pierre Renoir, Carette, Aime Clariond, Irene Joachim, Andrex, Ardisson. The doctor's horrible experiment: Jean-Louis Barrault, Teddy Billis, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold, Regine Blaes, Jaque Catelain, Jacques Danoville, Micheline Gary, Jean-Pierre Granval, Gaston Modot, Jacqueline Morane, Raymone. The elusive corporal: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, O.E. Hasse, Claude Rich, Jacques Jouanneau, Sacha Briquet, Mario David, Jean Carmet, Raymond Jourdan, Guy Bedos, Philippe Castelli, Gerard Darrieu, Conny Froboess.

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 parade: 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 preceding 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.

Rating: Not rated.


DVD, NTSC, region 1, full and widescreen; monaural.


La fille de l'eau, Nana, Sur un air de Charleston, La petite marchande d'allumettes silent films with French intertitles and optional English subtitles; La Marseillaise, Le testament du Docteur Cordelier, Le caporal épinglé in French with optional English subtitles.

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Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 --Film adaptations.
Andersen, H. C. 1805-1875 --Film adaptations.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 --Film adaptations.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Film adaptations.
Perret, Jacques, 1901-1992 --Film adaptations.
Andersen, H. C. 1805-1875.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Perret, Jacques, 1901-1992.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.


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PN1997 / .J387 2007

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