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French masterworks, Russian emigres in Paris 1923-1929

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French masterworks

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Russian emigres in Paris 1923-1929

The five exciting features in this collection, each restored to excellent condition by the Cinematheque Francaise, are all U.S. home video premieres, accompanied by outstanding new music scores by Timothy Brock, Robert Israel, Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Includes The Burning Crucible, Kean, The Late Mathias Pascal Gribiche, and The New Gentlemen. For each film, the original French titles are retained with optional English subtitlesBrasier ardent: "A Woman has a mad dream, featuring a man in a variety of disguises, she awakens and reads a booklet about Detective Z the man of her dreams. Her husband is planning to move himself and the woman out of Paris, she doesn't want to move and runs away."Gribiche: A boy from a low social station is adopted by a wealthy woman, whom he soon comes to despiseKean: A dramatization of the life of British stage actor Edmund Kean, widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of the 19th century. Based on an 1836 play by Alexandre Dumas, this seldom screened gem covers Kean's celebrated career along with his freewheeling lifestyle as a libertine and eventual decline fueled by heartbreak and alcoholFeu Mathias Pascal: Mathias, an eccentric dreamer, is trapped in the undertakings of daily life as he suffers his days in a loveless marriage, a dead end job and tyrannized by his ungrateful mother-in-law. Grief-stricken by the death of his mother and infant daughter, he flees to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at roulette. When his death is falsely reported, he leaps at the chance of a second and adventurous life in RomeNouveaux messieurs: The struggle over a beautiful dancer's affections between an aristocrat and an electrician turned union organizer

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Russian émigrés in Paris, 1923-1928