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2 videodiscs (approximately 92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #315
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Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan,who was once a virtuose who gave up playing after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends up stumbling into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair
Based on the novel "Down there" by David Goodis
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Raoul Coutard; audio commentary by film scholars Annette Insdorf and Peter Brunette; exclusive new video interviews with actors Charles Aznavour and Marie Dubois; video interview with Coutard, conducted in 2003; rare interview with François Truffaut collaborator Suzanne Schiffman, from 1986; excerpts from a 1965 episode of the French television program "Cinéastes de notre temps" dedicated to Truffaut; an excerpt from the French television program "Étoiles et toiles" in which Truffaut discusses his adaptation of the David Goodis novel; "The music of Georges Delerue": an illustrated essay; Dubois' screen test; theatrical trailer; a new essay by film critic Kent Jones
Cinematography, Raoul Coutard ; music, Georges Delerue
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono
French dialogue, with optional English subtitles