| Description |
3 videodiscs (516 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital; digitally mastered; widescreen, aspect ratio 1.66:1 or 1.73:1. |
| Language |
French dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles. |
| Note |
Collective title from container. |
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Originally released as a motion pictures, 1967-1984. |
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La Veuve Couderc based on the novel by Georges Simenon. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. La piscine = Swimming pool (121 min. ; 1969) -- disc 2. Diaboliquement votre = Diabolically yours (93 min. ; 1967) ; La Veuve Couderc = The widow Couderc (89 min. ; 1971) -- disc 3. Le gitan = Gypsy (102 min. ; 1975) ; Notre histoire = Our story (111 min. ; 1984). |
| Credits |
La piscine: Director, Jacques Deray ; producer, Gérard Beytout ; director of photography, Jean-Jacques Tarbes ; music Michel Legrand ; editing, Paul Cayatte. |
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Diaboliquement votre: Director, Julien Duvivier ; executive producer, Raymond Danon ; director of photography, Henri Decae; editor, Paul Cayatte; music, François de Roubaix; screenplay, Roland Girard, Jean Bolvary, Julien Duvivier. |
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La Veuve Couderc: Director, Pierre Granier-Deferre ; producer, Raymond Danon ; screenplay, Pascal Jardin ; music, Phillipe Sarde ; photography, Walter Wottitz ; camera, Phillipe Brun. |
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Le gitan: director and screenplay, José Giovanni ; producer, Raymond Danon ; director of photography, Jean-Jacques Tarbes ; music, Claude Bolling. |
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Notre histoire: director and screenplay, Bertrand Blier ; producer, Alain Sarde ; music, Bohuslav Martinu, Laurent Rossi ; photography, Jean Penzer. |
| Cast |
La piscine: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet. |
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Diaboliquement votre: Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Peter Mosbacher, Claude Pieplu, Albert Augier, Sergio Fantoni. |
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La Veuve Couderc: Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Pierre Collet, Francios Valore, Andre Rouyer. |
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Le gitan: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Paul Meurisse. |
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Notre histoire: Alain Delon, Nathalie Baye. |
| Summary |
La piscine: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly. |
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Diaboliquement votre: George Campo searches desperately for his sanity after a near-fatal car crash and three weeks in a coma, when he awakes to a strange new life and can't remember a thing. He becomes convinced that someone wants him dead. |
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La Veuve Couderc: While hiding from the police, Jean meets the Widow Couderc, a farmer's widow, and becomes her servant and lover. At the end the police discover his hide-out, encircle the farm and start moving in on him. |
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Le gitan: A long-suffering gypsy sets out to steal from the rich to provide sustenance to his fellow gypsies, all of them desperate and treated like trash by French society. Constantly outwitting the authorities as he moves deftly from place to place with the help of accomplices, this king of beggars ultimately cannot break the chain of displacement. |
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Notre histoire: A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. |
| Subject |
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Widows -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Romanies -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Alcoholics -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Local Subject |
FOREIGN FILMS (FRENCH), VIDEODISCS.
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| Genre |
Feature films France.
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Motion pictures, French.
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Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Fiction films.
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Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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DVD-Video discs.
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| Added Author |
Deray, Jacques, 1929- director.
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Duvivier, Julien, 1896-1967, director.
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Granier-Deferre, Pierre, 1927-2007, director.
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Giovanni, José, 1923-2004, director.
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Blier, Bertrand, director.
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Delon, Alain, 1935- actor.
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Signoret, Simone, 1921-1985, actor.
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Schneider, Romy, 1938-1982, actor.
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Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989.
Veuve Courderc.
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Studio Canal.
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Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)
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| Added Title |
Alain Delon five-film collection |
| Note |
Title on menu: Alain Delon collection |
| Added Title |
Piscine.
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Diaboliquement votre.
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Veuve Couderc.
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Gitan.
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Notre histoire.
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| Standard No. |
012236225959 |
| Music No. |
22595 Studio Canal/Lionsgate |
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