François Truffaut Collection - 7-DVD Box Set ( L'histoire d'Adèle H. / L'argent de poche / La chambre verte / La sirène du Mississipi / L'enfant sauvage / La mariée était en noir / L'homme qui aimait les femmes ) ( The Story of Adele H / Small Change / The Green Room / Mississippi Mermaid / The Wild Child / The Bride Wore Black / The Man Who Loved Women )

François Truffaut Collection - 7-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'histoire d'Adèle H. / L'argent de poche / La chambre verte / La sirène du Mississipi / L'enfant sauvage / La mariée était en noir / L'homme qui aimait les femmes
Alternate Title: The Story of Adele H / Small Change / The Green Room / Mississippi Mermaid / The Wild Child / The Bride Wore Black / The Man Who Loved Women
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
676 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1968 - 1978 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
François Truffaut

Written By:
François Truffaut
Jean Gruault
Suzanne Schiffman
Cornell Woolrich
Michel Fermaud

Actors:
Isabelle Adjani ..... Adèle Hugo
Bruce Robinson ..... Lt Albert Pinson
Sylvia Marriott ..... Mrs. Saunders
Joseph Blatchley ..... Mr. Whistler
Ivry Gitlis ..... Hypnotist
Louise Bourdet ..... Victor Hugo's servant
Cecil De Sausmarez ..... Mr. Lenoir
Ruben Dorey ..... Mr. Saunders
Clive Gillingham ..... Keaton
Roger Martin ..... Doctor Murdock
M. White ..... Colonel White
Madame Louise ..... Madame Baa
Jean-Pierre Leursse ..... Black penpusher
Nicole Félix ..... Grégory's mother
Chantal Mercier ..... Chantal Petit, the Schoolteacher
Jean-François Stévenin ..... Jean-François Richet, the Schoolteacher
Virginie Thévenet ..... Lydie Richet
Tania Torrens ..... Nadine Riffle, hairdresser
René Barnerias ..... Monsieur Desmouceaux, Patrick's father
Katy Carayon ..... Sylvie's Mother
Jean-Marie Carayon ..... Police inspector, Sylvie's father
Annie Chevaldonne ..... Nurse
Francis Devlaeminck ..... Monsieur Riffle, hairdresser, Laurent's father
Michel Dissart ..... Monsieur Lomay, constable
Michele Heyraud ..... Madame Deluca
Paul Heyraud ..... Monsieur Deluca
Jeanne Lobre ..... Julien's grandmother
Vincent Touly ..... Concierge
François Truffaut ..... Julien Davenne
Nathalie Baye ..... Cecilia Mandel
Jean Dasté ..... Bernard Humbert
Patrick Maléon ..... Georges
Jeanne Lobre ..... Mme Rambaud
Antoine Vitez ..... Bishop's secretary
Jean-Pierre Moulin ..... Gerard Mazet
Serge Rousseau ..... Paul Masigny
Jean-Pierre Ducos ..... Priest in the mortuary room
Annie Miller ..... Genevieve Mazet
Nathan Miller ..... Genevieve Mazet's son
Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville ..... Yvonne Mazet
Monique Dury ..... Monique
Laurence Ragon ..... Julie Davenne
Marcel Berbert ..... Dr. Jardine
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Louis Mahé
Catherine Deneuve ..... Julie Roussel
Marion Vergano ..... Berthe
Nelly Borgeaud ..... Landlady
Martine Ferrière ..... Jardine
Marcel Berbert ..... Detective
Yves Drouhet ..... Comolli
Michel Bouquet ..... Richard
Roland Thénot
Jean-Pierre Cargol ..... Victor, l'enfant sauvage
François Truffaut ..... Le Dr Jean Itard
Françoise Seigner ..... Madame Guerin
Jean Dasté ..... Professor Philippe Pinel
Annie Miller ..... Madame Lemeri
Claude Miller ..... Monsieur Lemeri
Paul Villé ..... Remy
Nathan Miller ..... Baby Lemeri
Mathieu Schiffman ..... Mathieu
Jean Gruault ..... Visitor at Institute
Robert Cambourakis ..... Countryman
Gitt Magrini ..... Countrywoman
Jean-François Stévenin ..... Countryman
Laura Truffaut ..... Girl at farm
Eva Truffaut ..... Girl at farm
Jeanne Moreau ..... Julie Kohler
Michel Bouquet ..... Coral
Jean-Claude Brialy ..... Corey
Charles Denner ..... Fergus
Claude Rich ..... Bliss
Michael Lonsdale ..... Rene Morane
Daniel Boulanger ..... Delvaux
Alexandra Stewart ..... Mlle Becker
Sylvine Delannoy ..... Mme Morane
Luce Fabiole ..... Julie's mother
Michèle Montfort ..... Fergus's model
Jacqueline Rouillard ..... Mechanic
Paul Pavel ..... Examining judge
Gilles Quéant ..... David
Serge Rousseau
Charles Denner ..... Bertrand Morane
Brigitte Fossey ..... Geneviève Bigey
Nelly Borgeaud ..... Delphine Grezel
Geneviève Fontanel ..... Hélène
Leslie Caron ..... Véra
Nathalie Baye ..... Martine Desdoits
Valérie Bonnier ..... Fabienne
Jean Dasté ..... Docteur Bicard
Sabine Glaser ..... Bernadette
Henri Agel ..... Lecteur
Chantal Balussou ..... Liliane, la Karateka
Nella Barbier ..... La jeune femme à la robe frangée
Anne Bataille ..... Denise
Martine Chassaing ..... La seconde employée 'Midi-Car'
Ghylaine Dumas

Synopsis:

***WARNING***Mississippi Mermaid contains Italian & French audio with Italian & French subtitles ONLY***
The Story of Adele H (1975)
Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
Small Change (1976)
Small Change is a comedy with a serious message, based around the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Scenes include a baby and a cat perilously playing on an open windowsill, a girl causing confusion with a bullhorn, a double date at the movie theater, a kid telling a dirty joke, a botched haircut, as well as many scenes about school life.
The Green Room (1978)
A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.
Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry her. He only knows her by mail. The woman that comes does not like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway. Soon, she flees with Louis' money. She was not the real Julie Roussel but Marion. Louis tries to find her... Another Truffaut's film about passion.
The Wild Child (1970)
In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who can not walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Many women are attending Bertrand Morane's burial. They are all the ones that 40 years old engineer loved. Flashback : Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about the love relationships, the need to charm and the literary creation.

The Story of Adele H (1975)
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet obsessive love and self-destruction is based upon the real diary of Adèle Hugo.
Small Change (1976)
In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention. A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr. Right, another mom reaches out to Patrick, a motherless lad who is just discovering the opposite sex. Patrick befriends Julien, a new student who lives in poverty with his mother and has a terrible secret. Bruno shows his friends how to chat up girls. Sylvie stages a witty protest against her parents. Brothers give a friend a haircut. A toddler falls from a window and is unhurt. Everybody goes to the cinema. At camp, Martine catches Patrick's eye. A teacher explains: "Life is hard, but it's wonderful."
The Green Room (1978)
Eleven years after the end of World War I, in a small village in the East of France, the journalist Julien Davenne still grieves the death of his beloved wife Julie ten years ago. He worships Julie in a green room in his house decorated with her pictures and belongings. When he meets auctioneer's assistant Cecilia Mandel in an auction house, they see that they have in common the obsession for death and become close to each other. When a fire destroys his green room, Julien convinces the bishop to restore the local chapel and prepare it as a sanctuary for Julie and his dead friends to preserve their memories, while Cecilia falls in love for him, but Julien is dead inside.
Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
In Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, the owner of a cigarette factory Louis Mahé is engaged through correspondence with Julie Roussel and he does not know her. When Julie arrives in the island to get married with Louis, he waits for her in the docks but Louis does not recognize Julie in the passenger vessel and finds that she is totally different from the picture she had sent to Louis. They get married and Louis shares his bank accounts with her. When Julie's sister writes a letter to Louis asking her sister to write to her, Louis discovers that the woman is not Julie that is missing. Further, he finds that the woman has cleared his bank accounts and left the island. Louis and Julie's sister hire an efficient private detective Comolli and Louis travels to France seeking the woman, but he has a nervous breakdown in Nice and is submitted to an intense sleeping therapy in a clinic. He recovers and finds that the woman, actually Marion Vergano, works in the Phoenix Club Privé in Antibes and lives in the low-budget Monorail Hotel. Louis breaks in her room and when she arrives from the club, she tells that she was happy with him but her former dangerous lover Richard had blackmailed her. Louis is still in love with Marion and escapes with her to the countryside. But Comolli is chasing Marion in France accused of murdering Julie.
The Wild Child (1970)
1798. In a forest, some countrymen catch a wild child who can not walk, speak, read nor write. Doctor Itard is interested by the child, and starts to educate him. Everybody thinks he will fail, but with a lot of love and patience, he manages to obtain results and the child continues with normal development. This is based on true story.
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
After trying to commit suicide, the widow Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) pretends to her mother that she will leave her town. Actually she stays, chases and assassinates the five men that accidentally killed her beloved husband in the stairs of the church immediately after their wedding ceremony.
The Man Who Loved Women (1977)
Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5," seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40ish and somewhat square, no woman in the town of Montpelier seems capable of resisting his earnest advances. Not much else happens in The Man Who Loved Women, but in the hands of master visual storyteller François Truffaut, the threadbare plot accumulates deep and ominous philosophical resonances. What drives Morane from woman to woman, and what accounts for his remarkable success? Does he secretly dislike women and consider them interchangeable (as one of the more prurient characters charges, to Morane's genuine befuddlement), or is his enthusiasm a kind of celebration? Truffaut refuses to answer plainly, but does drop clues; as his camera focuses on everyday objects, many take on a chilling, otherwordly luster, and coldly foreshadow Morane's fate. A deceptively simple film, The Man Who Loved Women is neither an indictment nor an apology for philandering; rather, it's a courageous, lovingly detailed portrait of a complex, intelligent man suffering from an altogether intractable complaint. This film was clumsily remade in English in 1983 by Blake Edwards, with Burt Reynolds assuming the role played here with such understated skill by the wonderful Charles Denner.

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