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
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Edition:
- Dual-layer ed.
- Creation:
- 1959
- Publication:
- [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision Entertainment ; [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2003]
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- 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.
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- Language Notes:
- French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
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- System Details:
- DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital mono.
- Performers:
- Cast: Emanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson.
- Production Credits:
- Directors of photography, Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny ; editors, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney ; music, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco ; costume designer, Gerard Collery.
- General Notes:
- 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.
- Audience:
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; monochrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- HIR 1959 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 0780026934
- Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 037429180723
Publisher Number, Home Vision Entertainment: HIR050 - OCLC Numbers:
- 52479911
