| Description |
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 196.
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Classic collection.
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| System Details |
DVD, Region 1 encoding, full screen, Dolby digital mono., dual-layer. |
| Note |
New and improved English subtitle translation. |
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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. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Language |
French dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Motion pictures and the war -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Local Subject |
FOREIGN FILMS (FRENCH), VIDEODISCS.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Foreign films France.
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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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Argos Films.
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Como Films.
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Daiei Motion Picture (Firm)
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Pathe Overseas Productions (Firm)
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Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0780026934 |
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9780780026933 |
| Standard No. |
037429180723 |
| Music No. |
HIR050 Home Vision Entertainment |
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