UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15639075
Format:
1 BD (ca. 90 Min.) + 1 DVD-Video (ca. 90 Min.) ; s/w + Bonus
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mono 2.0 audio
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1 Beih.
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1080p, 1.37:1
Content:
The first time on DVD or Blu-ray in the UK for this hugely influential and ground-breaking documentary film from leading French documentarist Jean Rouch. In the summer of 1960 anthropologist filmmaker Jean Rouch ('Moi, un noir', 'Les maitres fous') and sociologist Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews, debates and observation. Artists, factory workers, office employees, students and other open up to the camera to share their experiences, fears and aspirations. The result became one of the decade's most influential films, and redefined the documentary form. Rouch, whose work inspired the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Roberto Rossellini, trained his ethnographic lens on the metropolis, recording a series of extraordinary sequences, including a French survivor's Holocaust testimony, to reveal the political underlying the personal in a society struggling into the post-colonial era. (BFI)
Content:
Extras: * Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition * Brand new restoration * Un ete + 50 (Florence Daumon, 2011, 75 mins): documentary on the making of Chronicle of a Summer featuring new interviews with the participants including Edgar Morin and Regis Debray * Jean Rouch at the NFT (1978, 55 mins): audio recording of a lecture delivered by Jean Rouch on Dziga Vertov and Robert Flaherty's influence on his work and that of his peers. * Fully illustrated booklet with newly commissoned essay by Professor Ginette Vincendeau
Note:
Ländercode: B [BD], 2 DVD Video
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Orig.: Frankreich, 1961
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Un été + 50 (Frankreich, 2011, 75 Min.) - Un été et cinquante.
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Franz. with optional engl. subtitles
Language:
French
Keywords:
Rouch, Jean
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Vertov, Dziga
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Flaherty, Robert Joseph
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Dokumentarfilm
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Chronique d'un été
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Blu-Ray-Disc
Author information:
Morin, Edgar
