Louis Malle Collection (Volume 1) - 4-DVD Box Set ( Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Le Feu follet / Les Amants / Zazie dans le métro ) ( Elevator to the Gallows / The Fire Within / The Lovers / Zazie in the Subway )

Louis Malle Collection (Volume 1) - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Le Feu follet / Les Amants / Zazie dans le métro
Alternate Title: Elevator to the Gallows / The Fire Within / The Lovers / Zazie in the Subway
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
364 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1958-1963 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Louis Malle

Written By:
Noël Calef
Louis Malle
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Louise de Vilmorin
Raymond Queneau

Actors:
Jeanne Moreau ..... Florence Carala
Maurice Ronet ..... Julien Tavernier
Georges Poujouly ..... Louis
Yori Bertin ..... Veronique
Jean Wall ..... Simon Carala
Elga Andersen ..... Madame Bencker
Sylviane Aisenstein ..... Secretary
Micheline Bona ..... Genevieve
Gisèle Grandpré ..... Anna
Jacqueline Staup ..... Maurice
Marcel Cuvelier ..... Inspector Cherier's assistant
Gérard Darrieu ..... Attorny of State
Charles Denner ..... Garage owner
Hubert Deschamps
Jacques Hilling
Maurice Ronet ..... Alain Leroy
Léna Skerla ..... Lydia
Yvonne Clech ..... Mademoiselle Farnoux
Hubert Deschamps ..... D'Averseau
Jean-Paul Moulinot ..... Dr. La Barbinais
Mona Dol ..... Madame La Barbinais
Pierre Moncorbier ..... Moraine
René Dupuy ..... Charlie (as René Dupuis)
Bernard Tiphaine ..... Milou
Bernard Noël ..... Dubourg
Ursula Kubler ..... Fanny
Jeanne Moreau ..... Eva
Alain Mottet ..... Urcel
François Gragnon ..... François Minville
Romain Bouteille ..... Jerome Minville
Jeanne Moreau ..... Jeanne Tournier
Alain Cuny ..... Henri Tournier
José Luis de Villalonga ..... Raoul Flores (as José Villalonga)
Jean-Marc Bory ..... Bernard Dubois-Lambert
Judith Magre ..... Maggy Thiebaut-Leroy
Gaston Modot ..... Coudray
Michèle Girardon ..... La secrétaire
Claude Mansard ..... Marcelot
Georgette Lobre ..... Marthe
Patricia Maurin ..... Catherine, fille de Jeanne
Lucienne Hamon ..... Chantal
Pierre Frag
Gib Grossac
Catherine Demongeot ..... Zazie
Philippe Noiret ..... Uncle Gabriel
Hubert Deschamps ..... Turandot
Carla Marlier ..... Albertine
Annie Fratellini ..... Mado
Vittorio Caprioli ..... Trouscaillon
Jacques Dufilho ..... Ferdinand Grédoux
Yvonne Clech ..... Madame Mouaque
Odette Piquet ..... Zazie's mother
Nicolas Bataille ..... Fédor
Antoine Roblot ..... Charles
Marc Doelnitz ..... M. Coquetti
Jacques Gheusi ..... Le gérant
Christine Howard ..... L'amant de Jeanne
Louis Lalanne

Synopsis:

Elevator to the Gallows/Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (1958): In this, his debut feature film, director Louis Malle captures the hidden beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the brilliant camerawork of Henri Decae, and the musical force of Miles Davis in a tightly constructed film noir experience that launched his and Moreau's careers.
The Fire Within/Le Feu Follet (1963): Maurice Ronet stars as an alcoholic writer who, upon leaving a drying-out clinic, decides to commit suicide. He elects to visit all his friends to see if they can provide him with a reason to live.
The Lovers/Les Amants (1958): A classic nouvelle vague exploration of human relationships. Jeanne Moreau appears as a bored bourgeois housewife in this study of sexual yearnings.
Zazie in the Subway/Zazie Dans Le Metro (1960): A precocious young brat takes a day trip to Paris and leaves chaos, anarchy and utter confusion in her wake!

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
The Fire Within (1963)
Life has become unbearably painful for Alain who is in his early 30s. He once used alcohol to dull the pain. His estranged wife in New York has paid for a cure at a clinic in Versailles and sends an emissary, one of the many woman he has known, to see how Alain is. She sees only the surface as does his doctor, who says it's time for Alain to leave the clinic. He goes to Paris the next morning and has lunch with old friends, a rendezvous in a cafe and is invited to a dinner party. Will Alain make a connection that will change his mind about ending it all?
The Lovers (1958)
Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, will the middle-aged heroine go away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke down on the way back to her country estate from a weekend with her lover in Paris?
Zazie in the Subway (1960)
This merry farce depicts a satirical view of the French society: Twelve years old Zazie has to stay two days with her relatives in Paris, so that her mother can spend some time with her lover. However Zazie escapes her uncle's custody and sets out to explore Paris on her own.

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