Enclosure (1961) ( L'Enclos )

Enclosure (1961) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: L'Enclos
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Moscow International Film Festival

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

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1961 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Yugoslavia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Armand Gatti

Written By:
Armand Gatti
Pierre Joffroy

Actors:
Slavko Belak
Hans Christian Blech
Michel Bouyer
Janez Cuk
Maks Furijan
Janko Hocevar
Janez Jerman
Marjan Kralj
Andrej Kurent
Pero Kvrgic
Frane Milcinski
Tamara Miletic
Jean Négroni
Nikolas Obolenski
Christina Piccoli
Lojze Potokar
Stane Raztresen
Janez Skof
Stane Skrabar
Jurij Soucek
Janez Vrhovec
Herbert Wochinz
Fritz Wohlfeiter
Stevo Zigon
Joze Zupan

Synopsis:

This prison camp drama by director and co-scripter Armand Gatti, his first film, reflects the early '60s resurgence of interest in the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis in World War II. (In another year, the Adolph Eichmann trial would be the first ever seen live on American television.) Gatti focuses on two men in a German concentration camp who have been cruelly penned inside an enclosure. One of the men, Karl (Herbert Wochinz), is a strong, bitter anti-Nazi German - a target of the Gestapo. The SS wants information on a rumored organization of resistance fighters inside the prison and they know he has it. The other man, David (Jean Negroni) is a Jew. If one of the men dies within a certain time then the other will be released. He will not be killed. Otherwise, both will be executed. The resistance fighters in the prison try to help the two as best they can, while the pair inside the enclosure slowly come to know each other as though they were brothers.

A demanding, ambitious uncompromising work, it was completely overshadowed by the so-called masterpieces of the French nouvelle vague. And however 'l'enclos' remains unique; it's not an entertaining movie, it's not 'Hart's war' or 'the great escape'. It's something different, terribly different. In a concentration camp, a kapo asks one of the prisoners to kill one of his mates. One of the officers saw the whole scene: it gives him a spooky idea: why not repeat it with two other prisoners, a French Jew and a German political prisoner (such a character was not that much obvious in the early sixties, and might explain the commercial failure of the movie: only 15 years had passed since the end of WW2). They lock both of them in an enclosure and tell them that they have to fight and the survivor's life will be spared. The two officers call that an 'experiment', they are sure that the German Aryan is bound to kill the 'inferior' Jew. They make a bet. But the 'result' will be totally unexpected, so unexpected that even in one of the most somber conclusions that was ever filmed, some sunlight does break through....

Enclosure (French: L'Enclos) is a 1961 French-Yugoslav drama film directed by Armand Gatti.

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