Alain Resnais Collection - 6-DVD Box Set ( La guerre est finie / Mon oncle d'Amérique / La vie est un roman / L'amour à mort / Mélo / I Want to Go Home ) ( The War Is Over / My American Uncle / Life Is a Bed of Roses / Love Unto Death / Melo / I Want to Go Home )

Alain Resnais Collection - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La guerre est finie / Mon oncle d'Amérique / La vie est un roman / L'amour à mort / Mélo / I Want to Go Home
Alternate Title: The War Is Over / My American Uncle / Life Is a Bed of Roses / Love Unto Death / Melo / I Want to Go Home
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
David Donatello Awards
Fantasporto Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
638 min + 506 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1966 - 1989 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Alain Resnais

Written By:
Jorge Semprún
Jean Gruault
Henri Laborit
Henri Bernstein
Alain Resnais
Jules Feiffer

Actors:
Yves Montand ..... Diego Mora
Ingrid Thulin ..... Marianne
Genevieve Bujold ..... Nadine Sallanches
Jean Dasté ..... Le chef du réseau clandestin / Chief
Dominique Rozan ..... Jude
Jean-François Rémi ..... Juan
Marie Mergey ..... Madame Lopez
Michel Piccoli ..... L'inspecteur des douanes / First Customs Inspector
Anouk Ferjac ..... Marie Jude
Roland Monod ..... Antoine
Pierre Decazes ..... L'employé SNCF / Station Employee
Paul Crauchet ..... Roberto
Claire Duhamel ..... La femme du wagon-restaurant / Traveller
Antoine Bourseiller ..... L'homme du wagon-restaurant / Traveller
Laurence Badie ..... Bernadette Pluvier
Gerard Depardieu ..... René Ragueneau
Nicole Garcia ..... Janine Garnier
Roger Pierre ..... Jean Le Gall
Nelly Borgeaud ..... Arlette Le Gall
Pierre Arditi ..... Zambeaux, le représentant de la direction générale à Paris
Gérard Darrieu ..... Léon Veestrate
Philippe Laudenbach ..... Michel Aubert
Marie Dubois ..... Thérèse Ragueneau
Henri Laborit ..... Himself
Bernard Malaterre ..... Le père de Jean
Laurence Roy ..... La mère de Jean
Alexandre Rignault ..... Le grand-père de Jean / Jean's Grandfather
Véronique Silver ..... La mère de Janine
Jean Lescot ..... Le père de Janine
Geneviève Mnich ..... La mère de René
Vittorio Gassman ..... Walter Guarini
Ruggero Raimondi ..... Comte Michel Forbek
Count Michel Forbek ..... Nora Winkle
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Livia Cerasquier
Fanny Ardant ..... Robert Dufresne
Pierre Arditi ..... Élisabeth Rousseau
Sabine Azéma ..... Georges Leroux
Robert Manuel ..... Claudine Obertin
Martine Kelly ..... Zoltán Forbek
Samson Fainsilber ..... Nathalie Holberg
Véronique Silver ..... Raoul Vandamme
Andre Dussollier ..... Frédéric
Guillaume Boisseau ..... Marie
Sabine Thomas ..... School Teacher
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu ..... Pierre
Rodolphe Schacher
Sabine Azéma ..... Elisabeth Sutter
Fanny Ardant ..... Judith Martignac
Pierre Arditi ..... Simon Roche
Andre Dussollier ..... Jérôme Martignac
Jean Dasté ..... Dr. Rozier
Geneviève Mnich ..... Anne Jourdet
Jean-Claude Weibel ..... Le spécialiste
Louis Castel ..... Michel Garenne
Françoise Rigal ..... Juliette Dotax
Françoise Morhange ..... Mme Vigne
Jean Champion ..... Voic
Yvette Etiévant ..... Voic
Bernard Malaterre ..... Voic
Sabine Azéma ..... Romaine Belcroix
Fanny Ardant ..... Christiane Levesque
Pierre Arditi ..... Pierre Belcroix
Andre Dussollier ..... Marcel Blanc
Jacques Dacqmine ..... Dr. Remy
Hubert Gignoux ..... Le Prêtre
Catherine Arditi ..... Yvonne
Adolph Green ..... Joey Wellman
Laura Benson ..... Elsie Wellman
Linda Lavin ..... Lena Apthrop
Gerard Depardieu ..... Christian Gauthier
Micheline Presle ..... Isabelle Gauthier
John Ashton ..... Harry Dempsey
Geraldine Chaplin ..... Terry Amstrong
Caroline Sihol ..... Dora Dempsey
Catherine Arditi ..... La boulangère
Albert Benchamoul ..... Un vieux villageois
Françoise Bertin ..... La cliente de la marchande de légumes
Patrick Bonnel ..... Le boucher
Charlotte Bonnet ..... La femme chauffeur de taxi
Jean Champion ..... Le chauffeur de taxi / Taxi driver
Emmanuelle Chaulet ..... La secrétaire de Gauthier / Secretary of Gauthier
Jean-Marc Cozic ..... Tintin
Pierre Decazes ..... Le garagiste
Tony Dias ..... Valentina
Guillaume Farny ..... Bateman
Georges Fricker ..... Roxy Darcel, le compagnon de Terry
Alain Fromager ..... L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
François-Eric Gendron ..... Lionel Cohn-Martin
Raphaëline Goupilleau ..... L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier
Isabelle Habiague ..... La jeune femme qui chante
Lucienne Hamon ..... Mme Roget / Mrs. Roget
Peter Hudson ..... Le Spectre
Jacques Le Servot ..... Spirit
Jean Prévôt ..... Un vieux villageois
Anne Roussel ..... La jeune femme fatiguée / The tired woman
Ludivine Sagnier ..... La petite fille de la place du village
Agnès Seelinger ..... La domestique du manoir
Gisèle Soban ..... Elektra
Anne Teyssèdre ..... La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier
Nicolas Trong ..... Le jeune homme dans l'avion
Isabelle Turpault ..... Catwoman
Michel Weinstadt ..... Corto Maltese
Isabelle Wolfe ..... Laureline
Abbes Zahmani ..... Le Concombre Masqué

Synopsis:

***WARNING***The War Is Over does NOT contain English***
The War Is Over (1966)***French audio & French subtitles***
Diego is one of the chiefs of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but manages to go free thanks to Nadine, the daughter of the man whose passport is used by him...
My American Uncle (1980)***French audio & English subtitles***
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety.
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)***French audio & English subtitles***
Life Is a Bed of Roses weaves together three stories set in a fantastical castle in the Ardennes forest.
Love Unto Death (1984)***French audio & English subtitles***
Love Unto Death tells the story of Elisabeth and Simon who, only weeks into a passionate relationship, must face the possibility that Simon may be on the brink of death.
Melo (1986)***French audio & English subtitles***
In Melo, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with the pretty young wife of an old friend in 1920s Paris.
I Want to Go Home (1989)***English & French audio with French subtitles***
In I Want to Go Home, American cartoonist Joey Wellman visits his estranged daughter Elsie in Paris - with disastrous results.

The War Is Over (1966)
Communist Diego Mora (Yves Montand) has spent a lifetime as a revolutionary, but he's in the twilight of his career. Refusing to retire, Mora attempts to serve as a strike leader in Madrid, only to have the rising generation of revolutionaries question his relevance. Eventually, only Diego's devoted lover, fellow party member Marianne (Ingrid Thulin), is on his side, as rebellion becomes synonymous with terrorism and the old forms of protest fall out of favor.
My American Uncle (1980)
In this unconventional French film, renowned writer/philosopher Henri Laborit (portraying himself) presents three stories that illustrate the complexities of human behavior. René (Gérard Depardieu) is a man from humble farming roots who becomes manager at a textile factory and must contend with the pressures of the job. Meanwhile, Janine (Nicole Garcia), an actress turned stylist, is involved in an affair with Jean (Roger Pierre), a politician and aspiring writer who faces difficulties at home.
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by brainwashing his friends, including his former fiancee, Livia, and her husband. In the present day, the castle is being used as an alternative school and, in the summer holidays, for an educational conference. At the conference, the American Nora Winkle bets Claudine that the ernest public school teacher Elisabeth Rousseau will be enticed into the bed of Robert Dufresne, even though the principal speaker, Walter Guarini, is obviously interested in Elisabeth. Meanwhile, the children staying at the castle over the holidays invent their own medieval tale about freeing prisoners from the dungeons.
Love Unto Death (1984)
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide...
Melo (1986)
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it forward even as her husband, Pierre, falls ill. She may even be purposely giving Pierre a treatment that adds to his misery. After Marcel returns from a concert tour and Romaine stoops to a new low in abandoning Pierre for an assignation, she reconsiders the affair and takes a drastic step. Three years later, Pierre pays Marcel a visit to demand the truth. Will the jealous and aggrieved Marcel manage a convincing performance?
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena, and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him. Elsie puts off meeting him because she is busy trying to find Professor Christian Gauthier, in order to get him to read her thesis on Flaubert. However Gauthier is enamored with American culture, and invites Joey and some other Americans to his mother's house for the weekend. Elsie arrives at the gathering in time for the masquerade party and to see her father beginning to appreciate French culture.

The War Is Over (1966)
Diego is one of the chief of the spanish Communist Party. He is travelling back to Paris (where he lives) from a mission in Madrid. He is arrested at the border for an identity check but manages to go free thanks to Nadine, the daughter of the man whose passport is used by him. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching one of his comrades, Juan, to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested by Franco's police...
My American Uncle (1980)
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
Life Is a Bed of Roses weaves together three stories set in a fantastical castle in the Ardennes forest.
Love Unto Death (1984)
Love Unto Death tells the story of Elisabeth and Simon who, only weeks into a passionate relationship, must face the possibility that Simon may be on the brink of death.
Melo (1986)
In Melo, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with the pretty young wife of an old friend in 1920s Paris.
I Want to Go Home (1989)
In I Want to Go Home, American cartoonist Joey Wellman visits his estranged daughter Elsie in Paris - with disastrous results.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 03 September, 2015.