Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | 44 coups
English title on disc label and container: 400 blows
Four hundred blows
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| Other authors / contributors: | Truffaut, François, screenwriter, film director.
Moussy, Marcel, 1924-1995, screenwriter.
Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 1944- actor.
Maurier, Claire, actor.
Rémy, Albert, 1911-1967, actor.
Decomble, Guy, 1910-1964, actor.
Flamant, Georges, 1903-1990, actor.
Auffay, Patrick, actor.
Kanayan, Richard, actor.
Moati, Serge, actor.
Andrieux, Luc, 1917-1977, actor.
Mansard, Claude, actor.
Virlojeux, Henri, actor.
Decae, Henri, director of photography.
Evein, Bernard, 1929-2006, set designer.
Constantin, Jean, composer (expression)
Yoyotte, Marie-Josèphe, film editor.
Decugis, Cécile, film editor.
Possel, Michele de, film editor.
Stonehill, Brian, commentator.
Lachenay, Robert, commentator.
Insdorf, Annette, writer of supplementary textual content.
Janus Films, production company.
MK2 Diffusion (Firm), production company.
S.E.D.I.F., production company.
Films du carrosse (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| ISBN: | 9781604658309
1604658304
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| Physical medium: | Blu-ray Blu-ray 4 3/4 in.
DVD DVD video 4 3/4 in.
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| Sound characteristics: | Blu-ray digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0
DVD digital optical mono Dolby Digital 1.0
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| Video characteristics: | Blu-ray laser optical NTSC
DVD laser optical NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | Blu-ray video file Blu-ray region A
DVD video file DVD video region 1
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| Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
Container insert includes an essay "Close to home" by film scholar Annette Insdorf.
Special features: Commentaries: Brian Stonehill commentary (cinema professor); Robert Lachenay commentary (lifelong friend of Truffaut); Auditions (featuring screen tests of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan, 7 min.); Cannes 1959 (newsreel interview footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud at Cannes, 6 min.); Cinéastes de notre temps (television program excerpt featuring interviews with Truffaut and friends, 1965, 23 min.); Cinépanorama (television excerpt interview of Truffaut, 1960, 7 min.); Trailer (4 min.). All features available on both formats.
Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; set decoration, Bernard Evein ; music, Jean Constantin ; editors, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, Cécile Decugis, Michèle de Possel.
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay ; children, Daniel Couturier, François Nocher, Richard Kanayan, Renaud Fontanarosa, Michel Girard, Henry Moati, Bernard Abbou, Jean-François Bergouignan, Michel Lesignor ; with Luc Andrieux, Robert Beauvais, Bouchon, Christian Brocard, Yvonne Claudi, Marius Laurey, Claude Mansard, Jacques Monod, Pierre Repp, Henri Virlogeux.
Blu-ray: region A, Dolby Digital mono, 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
DVD: NTSC, region 1, Dolby Dgitial mono, 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
In French with optional English subtitles.
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| Summary: | Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intensely imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
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| Target Audience: | Not rated.
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| Awards: | Cannes Film Festival, 1959: OCIC Award; Best director.
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| Standard no.: | 715515114318
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| Publisher's no.: | CC2349BDDVD The Criterion Collection
CC2349BDDVD-1 The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
CC2349BDDVD-2 The Criterion Collection (DVD)
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