Franz Seitz Film
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. & guide.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Danzig, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, on his third birthday, refuses to grow. Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World...
Series
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 177 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The tale of a composer who sells his soul to Satan to ensure his own creativity, but finds he cannot keep to his bargain to refrain from all close human relationships and his closest friends die as a result.
Series
Criterion collection volume 328
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006, c1971
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unp. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.).
Language
Français
Description
A candid portrait of one boy's journey from childhood to adulthood. A precocious fifteen-year-old boy's sexual maturation and unorthodox relationship with his free-spirited mother is both shocking and deeply poignant.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 328-330
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 booklets.
Language
Français
Description
A collection of three films by Louis Malle that tells stories of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Murmur of the heart is a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy's sexual maturation. Lacombe, Lucien traces a young peasant's journey from a potential Resistance member to a Gestapo recruit. Au revoir les enfants tells the story of friendship and devastating loss between two boys living in Nazi-occupied France...
