Le dernier métro : The last metro

Resource Information

The work Le dernier métro : The last metro represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Le dernier métro : The last metro

Title remainder

The last metro

Statement of responsibility

une production de Les Films du carrosse ; Sedif S.A., T.F. 1, Société française de production ; scénario de François Truffaut et Suzanne Schiffman ; dialogue de François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg ; mise en scène, François Truffaut

Title variation

Last metro

Creator

• Dernier métro (Motion picture : 1980)

Contributor

• S.E.D.I.F
• Société française de production
• Société nationale télévision française 1
• Bennent, Heinz
• Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-
• Depardieu, Gérard, 1948-
• Dubost, Paulette
• Ferréol, Andréa, 1947-
• Grumberg, Jean-Claude, 1939-
• Haudepin, Sabine, 1955-
• Poiret, Jean, 1926-1992
• Richard, Jean-Louis
• Risch, Maurice, 1943-
• Schiffman, Suzanne
• Truffaut, François
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Films du carrosse (Firm)

Subject

• Actors -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Feature films -- France
• France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Drama
• Jewish men -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Romance films
• Theater -- Production and direction -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Theatrical companies -- France | Paris -- Drama
• War films
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Theater and the war -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Drama

Genre

• Romance films
• War films
• Feature films
• Drama

Language

• fre
• eng
• fre
• fre

Summary

Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country, he is actually hiding in the basement

Related

• Histoire d'eau

Member of

• Criterion collection, 462

Awards note

César: Best Actor (Gérard Depardieu), Best Actress (Catherine Deneuve), Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Film, Best Music Written for a Film, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Writing - Original or Adaptation, 1981.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photographer, Nestor Almendros ; editor, Martine Barraqué ; music, Georges Delerue

Language note

In French, with optional English subtitles (new and improved translation)

PerformerNote

Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard, Sabine Haudepin, Maurice Risch, Heinz Bennent

Runtime

132

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

462

Target audience

general

Technique

live action