Joris Ivens Collection (1912 - 1988) - 5-DVD Box Set ( Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple / Le Mistral / Indonesia Calling / La Seine a rencontré Paris / ...A Valparaíso / Rotterdam-Europoort / The 400 Million / Power and the Land / The Spanish Earth / Misère au Borinage / Nieuwe gronden / Komsomolsk / Phi ) ( 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War / Le Mistral / Indonesia Calling / The Seine Meets Paris / Valparaiso / Rotterdam-Euro poort / The Four Hundred Million / Power & the Land / The Spanish Earth / Misère au Borinage / New Earth / Komsomolsk / Philips-Radio / Re )

Joris Ivens Collection (1912 - 1988) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple / Le Mistral / Indonesia Calling / La Seine a rencontré Paris / ...A Valparaíso / Rotterdam-Europoort / The 400 Million / Power and the Land / The Spanish Earth / Misère au Borinage / Nieuwe gronden / Komsomolsk / Phi
Alternate Title: 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War / Le Mistral / Indonesia Calling / The Seine Meets Paris / Valparaiso / Rotterdam-Euro poort / The Four Hundred Million / Power & the Land / The Spanish Earth / Misère au Borinage / New Earth / Komsomolsk / Philips-Radio / Re
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Mono )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
900 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1911-1988 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Chile ( Latin America, Mexico )
China ( India, Eastern Asia )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )
Vietnam ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Joris Ivens
Marceline Loridan Ivens
Henri Storck
Mannus Franken

Written By:
Joris Ivens
Marceline Loridan Ivens
René Guyonnet
Jacques Prévert
Chris Marker
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Dudley Nichols
Stephen Vincent Benet
John Dos Passos
Ernest Hemingway
Henri Storck
Mannus Franken

Actors:
Henxiang Han ..... Himself
Joris Ivens ..... Herself
Guilian Liu ..... Herself
Hongyu Liu
Zhuang Liu
Marceline Loridan Ivens
Hong Wang
Roger Pigaut ..... Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Peter Finch ..... Narrator (voice)
Serge Reggiani ..... Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Willeke van Ammelrooy ..... Narrator (Dutch version) (voice)
Karel Kneulman ..... Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Yves Montand
Fredric March ..... Narration (voice)
Morris Carnovsky ..... Additional Voice (voice)
Sidney Lumet ..... Additional Voice (voice) (as Sydney Lumet)
Robert Q. Lewis ..... Additional Voice (voice) (as Robert Lewis)
Alfred Ryder ..... Additional Voice (voice)
William Adams ..... Narrator
Stephen Vincent Benet ..... Commentator
Manuel Azaña ..... Himself (President of Spain)
José Díaz ..... Himself (Parliamentarian)
Dolores Ibárruri ..... Herself (as La Pasionaria)
Enrique Lister ..... Himself (Republican Army)
Commander Martinez de Aragón ..... Himself (Republican Army)
Gustav Regler ..... Himself (German writer)
Orson Welles ..... Narrator (English version) (later replaced by Ernest Hemingway) (voice)

Synopsis:

This box set contains most of the Joris Ivens's films from 1912 to 1988, including:
A Tale of the Wind (1988)
17th Parallel: Vietnam in War / Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple (1968)
Le Mistral (1965)
Indonesia Calling (1947)
The Seine Meets Paris / La Seine a rencontré Paris (1957)
Valparaiso /...A Valparaíso (1965)
Rotterdam-Europoort (1966)
The 400 Million (1939)
Power and the Land (1940)
The Spanish Earth (1937)
Misère au Borinage (1933)
New Earth / Nieuwe gronden (1933)
Komsomolsk (1932)
Philips-Radio (1931)
Regen (1929)
De Brug (1928)
Studies in Movement / Études de mouvements (1928)
De Wigwam (1911)

This boxset contains most of the Joris Ivens's films from 1912 to 1988, including:

Une histoire de vent:
A film crew headed by a veteran director (Joris Ivens) travels to China's Gobi desert in this symbolic documentary-styled fantasy. While the crew waits for the wind to kick up, weather reports tell of tidal waves every place but China. The director is hospitalized after a fall from his chair and has dreams he is part of the Melies film A Trip To The Moon.

Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple:

Le Mistral:
Documentary on the effect of the Mistral wind in Provence.

Indonesia Calling:
Film of the Australian dock strike of 1945/46 in support of the declaration of independence of the Indonesian people, when Australian ports were used to send Dutch and English arms and ammunition into Indonesia. Film made in 1946

La Seine a rencontré Paris:

..A Valparaíso:
Life in a Valparaiso circus.

Rotterdam-Europoort:
Documentary on the Rotterdam airport.

The 400 Million:
Documentary on the heroic resistance of the Chinese to Japanese aggression.

Power and the Land:
A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States. |

The Spanish Earth:
A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. |

Misère au Borinage:
A social documentary describing the fate of some 15,000 miners in the Borinage, who in 1932 staged a strike in protest against the announcement by Belgian mine-owners of a 5% cut in wages.

Nieuwe gronden:
Combination of film material shot during the reclamation of the Zuiderzee with film material relating to world economics, to illustrate the effects of the economic crisis which occurred after completion of the drainage project. The drainage and reclamation of the land is shown, followed by the production of the first agricultural crop by farmers. The construction of the dam to reclaim more land is illustrated with a map, and the work in progress is shot from the land, sea and air. This is then linked in with the theme of economic chaos, showing the burning of coffee crops and dumping of wheat crops in the sea in order to maintain price levels, juxtaposed with shots of the hunger marches in London and Berlin.

Komsomolsk:

Philips-Radio:
A patterned appreciation of the rhythms of work and machinery.

Regen:
Made by the two principal members of a Dutch film appreciation group, photographed entirely with a hand-held camera, this film explores the moods and visual patterns evoked by a downpour of rain in a city.

De Brug: Close shots of a railway train underway: track racing underneath, steam escaping, cars coupling, gears ratchetting, signals changing. The train reaches a lift bridge which must rise to allow a merchantman to pass below... Bridge section and counterweight move choreographically. The balletic motion of beam relative to girder creates an elegant, abstract expression of the precision of technology... The lift operator sets the bridge to the correct height then returns it to the original position. The train carries on its way, passing prosaically over the ship canal.

Études de mouvements:

De Wigwam:

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