Marion Hänsel Collection 8-DVD Box Set ( The Quarry / Sur la terre comme au ciel / Nuages: Lettres à mon fils / Le Lit / Il Maestro / Li / Les Noces barbares / Dust ) ( The Quarry / Between Heaven and Earth / Clouds: Letters to My Son / The Bed / The Maestro / The Cruel Embrace / Dust )

Marion Hänsel Collection 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Quarry / Sur la terre comme au ciel / Nuages: Lettres à mon fils / Le Lit / Il Maestro / Li / Les Noces barbares / Dust
Alternate Title: The Quarry / Between Heaven and Earth / Clouds: Letters to My Son / The Bed / The Maestro / The Cruel Embrace / Dust
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Montreal World Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Belgium ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
707 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1982-2001 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Marion Hänsel
Marion Hansel

Written By:
Damon Galgut
Marion Hänsel
Jaco van Dormael
Laurette Vankeerberghen
Eva Houdova
Dominique Rolin
Mario Soldati
Nikos Kavvadias
Yann Queffélec
JM Coetzee

Actors:
John Lynch ..... The Man
Oscar Petersen ..... Valentine April
Sylvia Esau ..... The Woman
Jody Abrahams ..... Small
Serge-Henri Valcke ..... Rev. Frans Niemand
Samuel Bois ..... Jonas
Robert McCarthy ..... The Lawyer
Denzel Phillips ..... Policeman in Police Station
Jonathan Phillips ..... Capt. Mong (as Jonny Phillips)
Anton Stoltz ..... Owner of the Coffee Shop
Morne Visser ..... Policeman 1
Carmen Maura ..... Maria Garcia
Jean-Pierre Cassel ..... Le rédacteur en chef
Didier Bezace ..... Tom
Samuel Mussen ..... Jeremy
André Delvaux ..... Le professeur
Philippe Allard ..... Le jeune homme
Daniela Bisconti ..... Laura
Francine Bustin ..... La gynécologue
André Debaar ..... L'invité gynécologue
Denise de Hagen ..... La kinésithérapeute
Serge Dumoulin ..... Henri
Véronique Dumont ..... Lab jeune fille
Pierre Laroche ..... Le gynécologue
Hugues Lepaigne ..... Le présentateur
Johan Leysen ..... Hans
Barbara Auer ..... Narrator (German language version)
Antje de Boeck ..... Narrator (Dutch language version) (voice)
Catherine Deneuve ..... Narrator (French language version) / Récitante
Charlotte Rampling ..... Narrator (English language version)
Heinz Bennent ..... Martin
Francine Blistin ..... Caroline
Johan Leysen ..... Bruno
Patrick Massieu ..... Tardif
Natasha Parry ..... Eva
Malcolm McDowell ..... Walter Goldberg
Charles Aznavour ..... Romualdi
Andréa Ferréol ..... Dolores
Francis Lemaire ..... Le directeur de l'opéra
Carmela Locantore ..... Paola
Pietro Pizzuti ..... Father Abbott
Serge-Henri Valcke ..... Major Wyatt
Lilian Chen ..... La cantatrice
Gaston Bertin ..... Un musicien
Olivier Caillabet ..... Un musicien
Hadi El Gammal ..... Un musicien
Mabelle Roelandt ..... Une musicienne
Linda Schagen Van Leeuwen ..... Une musicienne
Christine Smeysters ..... Une musicienne
Henri Morelle ..... Le concierge
Stephen Rea ..... Nikos
Ling Chu ..... Li
Adrian Brine ..... Captain
Maka Kotto ..... African sailor
Mischa Aznavour ..... Young sailor
Koon-Lan Law ..... Li's mother
Jane Birkin ..... The Woman (voice)
Chan Chan Man ..... Baby
Chow Jo ..... Grand-Father
Wong Wong ..... Grand-Mother
Fow Tse ..... Stepfather
Cheung Chi Ho ..... Sailor
Chong Ching ..... Sailor
Lim ..... Sailor
Peter Heylen ..... Sailor
Marianne Basler ..... Nicole, la mere
Thierry Frémont ..... Ludo adolescent
Yves Cotton ..... Ludo enfant
Marie-Ange Dutheil ..... Mademoisell Rakoff
André Penvern ..... Micho
Frédéric Saurel ..... Tatar
Claudine Delvaux ..... Madame Blanchard
Jacky Pratoussy ..... Monsieur Blanchard (as Jacques Pratoussi)
Patrick Massieu ..... Le patron du bistrot
Jean-Louis Benoît ..... L'instituteur
Willem Carpentier ..... Will
Pascale Tison ..... Lise
Henri Gruvman ..... Odilon
Gerda Marchand ..... Fine
Christiane Broustet ..... La vendeuse
Jane Birkin ..... Magda
Trevor Howard ..... Le père
John Matshikiza ..... Hendrick
Nadine Uwampa ..... Klein Anna
Lourdes Christina Sayo ..... Oud Anna
René Díaz ..... Jacob
Tom Vrebus ..... Piet
Jean Ackermans ..... Horseman
Jean-Paul Bellemans ..... Horseman

Synopsis:

All eight DVDs in this DVD set have either English subtitles or English soundtrack.

The Quarry:
Marion Hansel directed this Belgian-French-Dutch-Spanish drama, adapted from the novel by Damon Galgut, about an escaped criminal (John Lynch), who gets a lift from a minister (Serge-Henri Valcke). When the minister makes a sexual advance, the two skirmish -- leading to the minister's accidental death. After he buries the body at an inactive quarry, the escapee heads for the dead man's destination, where he easily assumes the ministerial position and is accepted by the community -- a situation threatened when small-time thieves realize he's an impostor. In addition to an award for Takashi Kako's music score, this film shared the top award at the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.

Sur la terre comme au ciel / Between Heaven and Earth:
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.

Clouds: Letters to My Son / Nuages: Lettres à mon fils:
Marion Hansel directed this personal meditation on the joys and responsibilities of parenthood, in which a narrator reads Hansel's philosophic musings on raising her young son on her own, while carefully shot and selected footage of different cloud formations from around the world provide a striking visual backdrop. Catherine Deneuve read Hansel's text in the original French-language version of Nuages; Charlotte Rampling did the honors for the English-language print, while Barbara Auer, Carmen Maura, and Antje De Boeck respectively lent their voices to the German, Spanish, and Dutch editions of the film.

Le Lit / The Bed:
In this somber movie, Martin (Heinz Bennent), a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present. Director and writer Marion Hansel stands at a slight remove while the last day in the life of the moribund man, with all its pain, is interspersed with flashbacks to happier times with his second wife. Some of the dialogue is oddly artificial and when combined with the space that the director places between the viewer and the events on the screen, it may distance some from the suffering of the lead figures.

Il Maestro / The Maestro:
Set in Italy about a famous conductor, who is to conduct four concerts, however during his first one, he suffers crippling traumatic strain. And through various flash backs of his life, we discover a secret...

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Li:
A sailor, anchored in Hong Kong for three days, meets a ten- year-old Chinese girl who wants to work on the boat for food and money.

Les Noces barbares / The Cruel Embrace:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn for his mother's affection. Nicole enters into a loveless marriage with an older man who agrees to adopt Ludo, but her deteriorating mental health leads her to sloth and alcoholism. Ludo is sent off to an asylum, but escapes and takes up residence on a deserted beach in an old tanker that has run aground. This feature won the grand prize at the 1987 Barcelona Film Festival.

Dust:
A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation. |

The Quarry:
An escaped criminal accepts a ride from a minister in the South African outback. The minister makes a pass at him, and the criminal accidentally kills him in the ensuing fight. After burying the body, the man completes the minister's journey, and takes on his identity at the remote outpost that was expecting him. He is a successful impostor for a while, but then some petty thieves discover his true identity, and threaten to expose him.

Sur la terre comme au ciel / Between Heaven and Earth:
A successful television journalist travels around the world covering key issues centring around politics and environmental/global issues. Pregnancy does not slow her down but whilst on an assignment covering overdue pregnancies, she discovers that the condition is endemic and that babies who are induced are dying. Her unborn child speaks to her and informs her that the foetuses do not wish to be born but have made a collective decision to allow the human race to be wiped out.

Clouds: Letters to My Son / Nuages: Lettres à mon fils:
A meditation on motherhood and nature. As director Marion Hansel recalls episodes from her life crucial to her relationship with her son, we see multiple images of clouds, taken from all over the world.

Le Lit / The Bed:
Based on a novel by Dominique Rollin. A woman waits patiently for death to take her husband, tending him, caring for him, preparing to exist without him...

Il Maestro / The Maestro:
Near the end of World War II, an unlikely friendship develops between a famous conductor and a mediocre musician while both are in hiding from the Nazis.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Li:
A sailor, anchored in Hong Kong for three days, meets a ten- year-old Chinese girl who wants to work on the boat for food and money.

Les Noces barbares / The Cruel Embrace:
After his mother scorns him, a boy is locked away in an attic.

Dust:
This French-Belgian co-production is set in a remote, squalid South African farm. Jane Birkin stars as Magda, the 'proper' farmer's daughter who murders her father (Trevor Howard) when she learns of an affair between him and a local woman (Nadine Uwampa). By rights, Magda should leave for parts unknown at this point. Instead, she becomes obsessively involved in the lives of her father's mistress and her native husband (John Matshikiza). An inevitable second tragedy results. A multiple award winner, Dust was adapted by director Marion Hansel from In the Heart of the Country, a novel by J.M. Cotezee.

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