Jean Renoir Collection (Box Set) (6 Disk) | La Grande Illusion / Le Caporal Epingle / La Merseillaise / La Bete Humaine / Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier / Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe |
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Director, actor and screenwriter; Jean Renoir is one of the most original filmmakers in the history of French cinema. A true pioneer; Renoir always sought to push the boundaries of cinema. He made neo-realist films ten years before Rossellini and experimented with cinema verite twenty years before Godard. His films have influenced generations of subsequent film makers - including Francois Truffaut, Luchino Visconti and Satyajit Ray.
Considered one of the first "auteurs", he is a cinematic master whose unique poetic style combined a vibrant humanism with a passion for beauty and nature. With his trademark use of deep-focus and a moving camera, Renoir's work is rich with energy, exuberance and the joy of life.
This collection brings together an overview of Renoir's work spanning over 25 years, including his anti-war masterpiece La Grand Illusion which is often voted one of the greatest films ever made. Funny, moving, true and still as fresh now as when they were made, Jean Renoir's films are essential viewing.
La Grande Illusion (1937)
This is an archetypal prison escape film, generally regarded as Jean Renoir's most popular film of the 1930s and one which, although often seen as a humane and pacifist indictment of war, offers an ambiguous perspective on class differences. Set in a WWI German prisoner-of-war camp, the film tells the story of three French soldiers, the working-class Marechal (Jean Gabin), the middle-class Jew Rosenthal (Marcel Dalio) and the aristocrat senior officer Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay), who are held prisoner by Commandant Von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim). The film shows how a bond of sympathy exists more between the German Commandant and the senior French officer than between the three Frenchman of different classes. Even though Boieldieu sacrifices himself for the two others to escape, the film makes no attempt to conceal what they are returning to once their role as war-heroes is over.
Le Caporal Epingle (1952)
An upper-class corporal from Paris is captured by the Germans when they invade France in 1940.
La Merseillaise (1938)
La Merseillaise is a news-reel like film about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people across the country.
La Bete Humaine (1938)
This is an adaptation of the novel by Emile Zola. Jean Gabin plays a train driver who falls in love with a colleague's wife, Sverine (Simone Simon). Her jealous husband has already murdered his wife's former lover. Jean Renoir directs this tense love triangle, which focuses on love, betrayal and violent jealousy.
Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier (1959)
A lawyer, Joly (Teddy Bilis) is disturbed when his friend, the eminent psychiatrist and researcher, Dr Cordelier (Jean-Louis Barrault), makes out a will leaving everything to a mysterious stranger, Opale (also played by Jean-Louis Barrault).
Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe (1959)
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion.
Elena et les Hommes (1956)
Polish countess Elena (Ingrid Bergman) falls in love with a French radical party's candidate in pre-World War I Paris - but another officer pines for her. |
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Jean Renoir
Skuespillere:
André Brunot
Charles Blavette
Dita Parlo
Erich von Stroheim
Fernand Ledoux
Gaston Modot
Georges Peclet
Ghislaine Dumont
Hélène Duc
Ingrid Bergman
Jacqueline Fontel
Jacques Danoville
Jean Dasté
Jean Gabin
Jean Renoir
Jean-Pierre Granval
Julien Carette
Marcel Dalio
Marguerite Cassan
Michel Herbault
Micheline Gary
Paul Meurisse
Paulette Dubost
Pierre Fresnay
Raymond Jourdan
Régine Blaess
Robert Chandeau
Simone Simon
Sylvain Itkine
Werner Florian
Producent:
Adry De Carbuccia
Ginette Doynel
Raymond Hakim
Robert Hakim
Roland Girard
Forfatter:
Charles Spaak
Jean Renoir
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