DVD
La commune (Paris 1871)
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Three-disc collector's edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Publication Information
[Brooklyn, NY] : Icarus Films Home Video
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (345 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Inside a giant warehouse in a working-class Parisian suburb, Peter Watkins assembles a cast of over 200 non-professional actors. Basing their work upon thorough historical research, they will attempt to re-create the events of March, 1871--the rise and fall of the Paris Commune. La Commune (Paris, 1871) explores that famous, brief, romantic, and tragic period when poor and working-class Parisians rose up against the "bourgeois" French national government, which fled the capital and re-established itself in Versailles. As this comples historical drama unfolds, it is also "covered" by two television news crews--one from "National TV Versailles," which broadcasts the official version of events, the other from "Commune TV," giving voice to the rebellious Communards.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.
Special features: The universal clock : the resistance of Peter Watkins / a film by Geoff Bowie (2001, 76 minutes, color ; in English & French, with English subtitles ; closed-captioned) ; Peter Watkins biography.