The Marquis Of O [1976] [DVD] | ![The Marquis Of O [1976] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E90cr1uzL.jpg) | Director: Eric Rohmer
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Edith Clever, Edda Seippel, Peter Lühr, Otto Sander
Studio: Arrow Films
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Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5027035003092
EAN: 5027035003092
Release Date: June 29, 2011
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Product Description
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Set in 1799 while the Russian General Souvarof is invading Italy, Eric Rohmer's The Marquis of O centres around the beautiful, young widow of the title (played by Edith Clever). Left alone as her father commands a zone in the thick of battle against the Russians, she is captured and violated by Count F (Bruno Ganz), a Russian lieutenant who she mistakenly believes to be her saviour. Unconscious at the time of her attack, she has no recollection of events and only when she begins to experience strange feelings and sensations does she realises she that could be carrying his child... SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Cannes Film Festival, ...The Marquise of O ( Die Marquise von O... ) ( La Marquise d'O... )
After Eric Rohmer completed his "Six Moral Tales," and before launching into the "Comedies and Proverbs," he tackled two projects very different from anything else in his career. In the first of these, The Marquise of O, based on the novel by Heinrich von Kleist, Rohmer leaves the young intellectuals of Paris for Italy during the Napoleonic wars. During the Russian invasion, the beautiful young marquise (Edith Clever) is saved from certain assault by a handsome and dashing count (Bruno Ganz). She spends the night guarded by her chivalrous savior, who returns months later to rather insistently court her. Only when he leaves does she discover that she is, unaccountably, pregnant. Rohmer's style is both more lush (shot in rich colors by Néstor Almendros) and less intimate than his previous romantic comedies, directed in painterly compositions at a removed distance. Unlike the self-obsessed young adults of his modern films, the count and the marquise act out of moral duty and social responsibility, and their actions reverberate through family and community. Yet this is still a Rohmer film, filled with carefully tooled dialogue (spoken in German) and informed by irony. The story of innocence and corruption, and the shades that lie within even the best of men, ends on a note of delicate forgiveness and understanding. Rohmer followed this with an even more unexpected stylistic experiment, the beautiful and beguiling Perceval. --Sean Axmaker
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