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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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It is the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951
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Special features: New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On life on-screen: miseries and splendour of a monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon; plus: an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obiturary for Guitry by François Truffaut
Germaine Reuver, Michel Simon
Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player
French dialogue; English subtitles