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Le fond de l'air est rouge = A grin without a cat /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 00113 | Icarus Films Home VideoLanguage: French, English, German Original language: French Subtitle language: French, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish Publisher: [Brooklyn, NY] : Icarus Films Home Video, [2009?]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Title on container and disc label: Grin without a cat
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 909.82 22
LOC classification:
  • D848 .F66 2009
NLM classification:
  • 00113
Contents:
Part one: Les mains fragiles = Fragile hands: 1: From Vietnam to Che's death ; 2: May 1968 and all that -- Part two: Les mains coupees = Severed hands: 1: From the Prague spring to the so-called "Union of the Left " in France ; 2: From Chile to -- to what?
Production credits:
  • Music, Luciano Berio.
Voices: Jim Broadbent, Cyril Cusack, Robert Kramer, François Maspero, Yves Montand, François Périer, Jorge Semprun, Simone Signoret.Summary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage trims and neglected reels.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03398 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050309183

Documentary.

Originally produced in France in 1977.

English version produced by Lucia Films, London, Iskra Films, Paris.

"Arte Editions"--Container

Subtitle by the director "Scenes from the Third World War 1967-1977."

Special feature: a 16-page booklet with text by Chris Marker, including the essay Sixties, written May, 2008.

Part one: Les mains fragiles = Fragile hands: 1: From Vietnam to Che's death ; 2: May 1968 and all that -- Part two: Les mains coupees = Severed hands: 1: From the Prague spring to the so-called "Union of the Left " in France ; 2: From Chile to -- to what?

DVD; full screen (1.33:1); NTSC format, regions all; stereo.

French, English or German version (with partial subtitles), Portuguese and Spanish subtitles (over French audio).

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