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The Resource The 400 blows : Les quatre cents coups, scénario de François Truffaut ; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut ; dialogues de Marcel Moussy ; mise in scène de François Truffaut ; une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du carrosse

The 400 blows : Les quatre cents coups, scénario de François Truffaut ; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut ; dialogues de Marcel Moussy ; mise in scène de François Truffaut ; une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du carrosse

Label
The 400 blows : Les quatre cents coups
Title
The 400 blows
Title remainder
Les quatre cents coups
Statement of responsibility
scénario de François Truffaut ; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut ; dialogues de Marcel Moussy ; mise in scène de François Truffaut ; une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du carrosse
Title variation
  • Four hundred blows
  • Quatre cents coups
Creator
Contributor
Actor
Composer
Director
Screenwriter
Subject
Genre
Language
  • fre
  • eng
  • fre
  • fre
Summary
Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen
Member of
Awards note
Cannes Film Festival, 1959: OCIC Award; Best director.
Cataloging source
JRG
Characteristic
videorecording
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
Quatre cents coups (Motion picture)
Credits note
Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; editors, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, Cécile Decugis, Michèle de Possel ; music, Jean Constantin ; producer, Georges Charlot
Intended audience
Not rated
Language note
In French with optional English subtitles
PerformerNote
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1924-1995
  • 1931-
  • 1944-
  • 1911-1967
  • 1910-1964
  • 1903-1990
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Truffaut, François
  • Moussy, Marcel
  • Givray, Claude de
  • Revon, Bernard
  • Léaud, Jean-Pierre
  • Maurier, Claire
  • Rémy, Albert
  • Decomble, Guy
  • Flamant, Georges
  • Auffay, Patrick
  • Decae, Henri
  • Yoyotte, Marie-Josèphe
  • Decugis, Cécile
  • Constantin, Jean
  • S.E.D.I.F
  • Films du carrosse (Firm)
  • Janus Films
  • Criterion Collection (Firm)
Runtime
99
Series statement
The Criterion collection
Series volume
5
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Doinel, Antoine (Fictitious character)
  • Teenage boys
  • Parent and child
  • Teacher-student relationships
  • Criminal behavior
  • Motion pictures, French
  • Criminal behavior
  • Doinel, Antoine (Fictitious character)
  • Foreign films
  • Manners and customs
  • Motion pictures, French
  • Parent and child
  • Teacher-student relationships
  • Teenage boys
  • France
  • France
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Label
The 400 blows : Les quatre cents coups, scénario de François Truffaut ; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut ; dialogues de Marcel Moussy ; mise in scène de François Truffaut ; une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du carrosse
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1959
  • Special features: optional audio commentary by cinema professor Brian Stonehill; optional audio commentary by Robert Lachenay; "Auditions" featuring screen tests of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan (7 min.); "Cannes 1959" newsreel interview footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud at Cannes (6 min.); "Cinéastes de notre temps" television program excerpt featuring interviews with Truffaut and friends (23 min.); "Cinépanorama" television excerpt interview of Tr5218 Not rated.uffaut (7 min.); theatrical trailer (4 min.)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1032120
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen version.
Extent
1 videodisc (99 min.)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515114318
Other physical details
sound, black and white
Publisher number
CC2349BDDVD-2
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o876081003
  • (OCoLC)876081003
System details
DVD, NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital mono
Video recording format
DVD
Label
The 400 blows : Les quatre cents coups, scénario de François Truffaut ; adaptation de M. Moussy et F. Truffaut ; dialogues de Marcel Moussy ; mise in scène de François Truffaut ; une co-production S.E.D.I.F., Les Films du carrosse
Publication
Note
  • Originally released as a motion picture in 1959
  • Special features: optional audio commentary by cinema professor Brian Stonehill; optional audio commentary by Robert Lachenay; "Auditions" featuring screen tests of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan (7 min.); "Cannes 1959" newsreel interview footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud at Cannes (6 min.); "Cinéastes de notre temps" television program excerpt featuring interviews with Truffaut and friends (23 min.); "Cinépanorama" television excerpt interview of Tr5218 Not rated.uffaut (7 min.); theatrical trailer (4 min.)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1032120
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen version.
Extent
1 videodisc (99 min.)
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515114318
Other physical details
sound, black and white
Publisher number
CC2349BDDVD-2
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o876081003
  • (OCoLC)876081003
System details
DVD, NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital mono
Video recording format
DVD

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