Great Directors of French Cinema Collection ( Jeux interdits / Le testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi / À bout de souffle ) ( Forbidden Games / Testament of Orpheus / Breathless )

Great Directors of French Cinema Collection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Jeux interdits / Le testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi / À bout de souffle
Alternate Title: Forbidden Games / Testament of Orpheus / Breathless
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
231 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1952-1960 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
René Clément
Jean Cocteau
Jean-Luc Godard

Written By:
François Boyer
Jean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
René Clément

Jean Cocteau
François Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Claude Chabrol

Actors:
Georges Poujouly ..... Michel Dollé
Brigitte Fossey ..... Paulette
Amédée ..... Francis Gouard
Laurence Badie ..... Berthe Dollé
Madeleine Barbulée ..... Une soeur de la Croix-Rouge
Suzanne Courtal ..... Madame Dollé - la mère
Lucien Hubert ..... Joseph Dollé - le père
Jacques Marin ..... Georges Dollé
Marcel Mérovée ..... Raymond Dollé
Violette Monnier ..... Renée Dollé
Denise Péronne ..... Jeanne Gouard
Fernande Roy ..... L'autre fille Gouard
Louis Saintève ..... Le prêtre
André Wasley ..... Gouard - le voisin
André Enard ..... Le premier gendarme
Marcelle Feuillade ..... La mère de Paulette
Roger Fossey ..... Le père de Paulette
Louis Herbert ..... Petit rôle
Bernard Musson ..... Le deuxième gendarme
Annie Ravel ..... La cousine de Georges
Georges Sauval ..... Le conducteur de la charrette
Maud Slover ..... Une dame au centre des réfugiés
Janine Zorelli ..... La vieille dame dans la charrette
Jean Cocteau ..... Self - the Poet
Françoise Arnoul ..... Elle-même
Claudine Auger ..... Minerve
Charles Aznavour ..... Le Curieux
Lucia Bosè ..... Une amie d'Orphée
Yul Brynner ..... L'huissier
María Casares ..... La princesse
Françoise Christophe ..... L'infirmière
Michèle Comte ..... La petite fille
Nicole Courcel ..... La mère maladroite
Henri Crémieux ..... Le professeur
Edouard Dermithe ..... Cégeste
Luis Miguel Dominguín ..... Un ami d'Orphée
Guy Dute ..... Le premier homme chien
Michael Goodliffe ..... English Narrator (uncredited
Daniel Gélin ..... L'interne
Alice Heyliger ..... Eurydice
Philippe Juzan ..... 1st Man-Horse
Serge Lifar ..... Un ami d'Orphée
Jean-Pierre Léaud ..... Dargelos
Jean Marais ..... Oedipe
Daniel Moosmann ..... 2nd Man-Horse
Brigitte Morisan ..... Antigone
Jean-Claude Petit ..... 2nd Man-Dog
Philippe ..... Gustave
Pablo Picasso ..... Un ami d'Orphée
François Périer ..... Heurtebise
Jacqueline Roque ..... Une amie d'Orphée
Françoise Sagan ..... Une amie d'Orphée
Alice Sapritch ..... La Reine des Gitans
Jean Seberg ..... Patricia Franchini
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs
Daniel Boulanger ..... Police Inspector Vital
Henri-Jacques Huet ..... Antonio Berrutti
Roger Hanin ..... Carl Zubart
Van Doude ..... Self
Claude Mansard ..... Claudius Mansard
Liliane Dreyfus ..... Liliane / Minouche
Michel Fabre ..... Police Inspector #2
Jean-Pierre Melville ..... Parvulesco the Writer
Jean-Luc Godard ..... The Snitch
Richard Balducci ..... Tolmatchoff
André S. Labarthe ..... Journalist at Orly
François Moreuil ..... Journalist at Orly
Jacques Lourcelles
Liliane Robin ..... Minouche
Gérard Brach ..... Photographer
Philippe de Broca ..... A Journalist
José Bénazéraf ..... Man in a White Car
Jean Domarchi ..... A Drunk
Jean Douchet ..... A Journalist
Raymond Huntley ..... A Journalist
Louiguy
Michel Mourlet ..... Audience in the movie theater
Guido Orlando
Madame Paul
Jean-Louis Richard ..... A Journalist
Jacques Serguine
Jacques Siclier
Virginie Ullmann
Emile Villion

Synopsis:

***WARNING: Al Final De La Escapada DOES NOT have English***Forbidden Games: A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however. Testament of Orpheus: The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevin's life. The professor has invented some bullets, which travel faster than light. With one of them he kills Cocteau, who is resurrected as his old self, but is still caught in the space between fantasy and reality. At a gypsy camp a woman saves a photo out of the fire and restores it. On the photo Cocteau recognizes Cégeste from his film Orphée. He tears the photo into pieces and throws it into the sea. Immediately Cégeste himself jumps out of the water. He brings Cocteau to a rogatory commission led by Heurtebise and The Princess from the film Orphée. Cocteau admits that he has constantly attempted to enter a world which is not his own, a world that is beyond the limits of man, and that disobedience is like a religion for him. The commission imposes on him the sentence of life. In a hall inside some stone ruins the goddess Athena kills Cocteau with her spear. His friends assemble around his body, but he resurrects from death, and walks away along a small road. Cégeste comes out from a rock and draws Cocteau into it, because they don't belong to life on earth. Breathless A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 15 October, 2022.