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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 21100 | Lions Gate EntertainmentLanguage: French Subtitle language: English Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Entertainment, [2007]Edition: Collector's editionDescription: 3 videodiscs (approximately 580 min.) : silent, and sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/75 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .J387 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.).
Production credits:
  • 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.
  • Charleston parade: Cinematography, Jean Bachelet.
  • 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.
  • The doctor's horrible experiment and The elusive corporal: Cinematography, Georges Leclerc ; original music, Joseph Kosma.
Cast: Whirlpool of fate: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Philippe, Marc Rosaert, Georges Terof, Mike Fockenberghe, Harold Lewingston, Maurice Touze, Pierre Champagne, Andre Derain.Cast: Nana: Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, Jean Angelo, Pierre Philippe, Valeska Gert, Claude Moore.Cast: Charleston parade: Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger, Andre Cerf, Pierre Lestringuez, Jean Renoir.Cast: Little match girl: Catherine Hessling, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby, Anny Xells.Cast: La Marseillaise: Louis Jouvet, Lise Delemare, Pierre Renoir, Carette, Aime Clariond, Irene Joachim, Andrex, Ardisson.Cast: 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.Cast: 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.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.Summary: 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.Summary: 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.Summary: 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.Summary: La Marseillaise: a dramatization of the French Revolution, from the period immediately preceding it in 1789 up to the first bloody confrontation.Summary: The doctor's horrible experiment: experimental fantasy about a Jekyll/Hyde-type psychiatrist/lunatic creating havoc in 1950s Paris.Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1070 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050121974

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.).

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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