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Les yeux sans visage = Eyes Without a Face Cover Image DVD DVD

Les yeux sans visage = Eyes Without a Face [videorecording] / Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France présente une production Jules Borkon ; un film de Georges Franju ; adaptation de Boileau-Narcejac, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet ; une co-production franco-italienne Champs-Élysées productions, Lux-Film.

Franju, Georges, 1912-1987 (Added Author). Borkon, Jules. (Added Author). Boileau-Narcejac. (Added Author). Redon, Jean. (Added Author). Sautet, Claude, 1924-2000 (Added Author). Brasseur, Pierre, 1905-1972 (Added Author). Valli, Alida, 1921-2006 (Added Author). Scob, Édith. (Added Author). Mayniel, Juliette, 1936- (Added Author). Rignault, Alexandre, 1901-1985 (Added Author). Jarre, Maurice. (Added Author). Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France. (Added Author). Champs-Élysées productions. (Added Author). Lux film (Firm) (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author). Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault. (Cast).

Summary:

A plastic surgeon, holed up in a Paris mansion, is obsessively slicing off the faces of kidnapped women and grafting the flayed skin onto the rotting countenance of his beloved young daughter, disfigured in an automobile accident.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0780028880
  • ISBN: 9780780028883
  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Fully restored DVD ed.
  • Publisher: [Chicago, Ill.?] : Criterion Collection, [2004]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959.
Based on a novel by Jean Redon.
Widescreen (1.66:1) presentation.
Special features: Blood of the beasts (Le sang des bêtes), Georges Franju's 1949 short documentary about the slaughterhouses of Paris; theatrical trailers; stills gallery; "Le fantastique," Georges Franju discussing fantastic cinema, horror and the terror in everyday life; excerpt from Les grands-pères du crime, a documentary featuring writers Boileau and Narcejac.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Director of photography, Eugen Shuftan ; editor, Gilbert Natot ; music, Maurice Jarre.
Participant or Performer Note:
Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD, region 1.
Language Note:
In French (Dolby digital mono) with optional English subtitles.

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