A wealthy merchant in nineteenth century Macao becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
2 videodiscs (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in digital optical video file DVD video polychrome
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: Not rated
Other Title:
Container of (work): Histoire immortelle (Motion picture) Container of (expression): Histoire immortelle (Motion picture). English
Notes:
Title from sell sheet New, restored 4k digital transfer of the English-language version of the film Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968 Adaptation of "Babette's feast" by Isak Dinesen Wide screen (1.66:1) Special features: audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin; portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968, documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif; new interview with actor Norman Eshley; itnerview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant; new interview with Welles scholar François Thomas; essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley DVD English or French dialogue; subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing