| Description |
3 videodisc (DVD)s (approximately 76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
Explores that famous, brief, romantic, and tragic period when poor and working-class Parisians rose up against the "bourgeois" French national government, which fled the capital and re-established itself in Versailles. As the historical drama unfolds, it is also "covered" by two television news crews - one from "National TV Versailles" which broadcasts the official version and the other from "Commune TV," giving voice to the rebellious Communards |
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"We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and offical view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighbourhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms. the scenes consist mainly of long camera takes. For Peter Watkins, to make a film is to question his own work as a filmmaker. La Commune (Paris, 1871) represents an uncompromising challenge to modern media and a penetrating critique." -- case |
| Notes |
Title from container |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2000 |
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Special feature: Disc 3: "The universal clock: the resistance of Peter Watkins" (76 min. ; color ; closed-captioned ; English & French dialogue with English sustitles); discussion guide; Peter Watkins biography |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Odd Geir Saether ; editors, Peter Watkins, Agathe Bluysen & Patrick Watkins |
| Notes |
DVD |
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Color recording system: NTSC |
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French dialogue, English subtitles |
| Subject |
Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871 -- Drama.
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Working class -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
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Poor -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
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Revolutions -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Watkins, Peter, 1935-
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Sæther, Odd Geir, 1941-
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First-Run Features (Firm)
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