  La Ronde (1950) (Dvd)La Ronde (1950) (Dvd)
UPC Number: 715515031424
Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Clarieux, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gélin, Fernand Gravey
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Dolby, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Criterion Collection
Release date: September 16, 2008
Run time: 93 minutes
Product Description
Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's controversial turn-of-thecentury play La ronde. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, and aristocrats, all are on equal footing in this multicharacter merry-go-round of love and infidelity, directed with a sweeping gaiety as knowingly frivolous as it is enchanting and shot with Ophuls's trademark intricate cinematography. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, Audio commentary featuring film scholar Susan White, author of The Cinema of Max Ophuls, Interview with Max Ophuls's son, the Academy Award winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls
Interview with actor Daniel Gelin (Napoleon, Testament of Orpheus)
Interview with film scholar Alan Williams, Selected correspondence between Sir Laurence Olivier and Heinrich Schnitzler (the playwright's son), illustrating the controversy surrounding the source play
New and improved English subtitle translation. PLUS: A new essay by film critic Terrence Raffert
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