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DVD

L'argent

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN, WSQ)

Edition

Special edition.

Languages

In French, with optional subtitles in English.

Performers

Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Didier Baussy, Béatrice Tabourin, Marc Ernest Fourneau.

Publication Information

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages)

Audience

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Summary

When an innocent prank goes wrong, it becomes the definitive moment in a man's life. A forged 500 franc note is accidentally passed to an unsuspecting young man. Ignorant of its origins, he tries to use the bill but is apprehended for forgery.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the novella The forged coupon by Leo Tolstoy.

DVD release of the 1983 motion picture.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

Special features: Press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival ; "L'argent", A to Z, a new video essay by film scholar James Quandt ; trailer ; New English subtitle translation ; Plus: an essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment.

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