Toni

DVD 2020

Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Italians France Drama

Man-woman relationships Drama

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama

More in this Genre:

Drama Feature films Fiction films Romance films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1040

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ISBN:

9781681437507

Description:

1 videodisc (84 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
digital
optical
mono
videodisc
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

Title from title frame
Originally released as a motion picture in 1935
Full screen (1.37:1)
Special features: audio commentary from 2006 featuring critics Kent Jones and Philip Lopate; introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1961; Episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1967 on Renoir, directed by Jacques Rivette and featuring a conversation with actor Charles Blavette about the film; new video essay about the making of Toni by film scholar Christopher Faulkner
Director of photography, Claude Renoir ; music, Bozzi ; editors, Mmes Marguerite, S. de Troeye
Celia Montalvan, Jenny Helia, Charles Blavette
DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.37:1); mono
French dialogue; English subtitles

Control Number:

3006755

UPC:

715515250214

Other Authors:

Blavette, Charles, 1902-1967, actor
Bozzi, Paul, composer
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Films Marcel Pagnol, production company
Gaut, Pierre, producer
Hélia, Jenny, 1906-1992, actor
Montalván, Celia, actor
Pagnol, Marcel, 1895-1974, producer
Renoir, Claude, 1914-1993, director of photography
Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979, film director
Renoir, Marguerite, film editor
Troeye, Suzanne de, film editor

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