Eyes without a face = Les yeux sans visage

Author

Georges Franju

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Languages

In French, with English subtitles.

Performers

Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, François Guérin, Edith Scob, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2004]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical surgery that could restore the beauty of his daughter's disfigured face--but at a horrifying price.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.

Special features: Blood of the beasts = Le sang des betes, Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris ; archival interviews with Franju on horror, cinema, and the making of Blood of the beasts ; excerpt from Les grands-pères du crime, a documentary featuring Eyes without a face writers Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac ; theatrical trailers ; stills gallery of rare production photos and promotional material.