Chronicle of a Summer [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch Edgar Morin

Overview

"Originally Chronique d'Un Ete, this black & white, 16-millimeter film is an exercise in cinema verite, conceived by an anthropologist/moviemaker (Jean Rouch) and a sociologist/movie critic (Edgar Morin). The all-amateur cast includes a black university student, a factory worker and a young holocaust survivor. Each is interviewed on a variety of current-events topics, and each is permitted to ramble on until the camera runs out of film. As a coda, the interviewees are seen talking among themselves, asking each other if they had been ""acting"" while on camera."

Product Details

Release Date:	02/26/2013
UPC:	0715515102919
Original Release:	1960
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00

Special Features

Un Été + 50 (2011), A Seventy-Five-Minute Documentary Featuring Outtakes From The Film, Along With New Interviews With Codirector Edgar Morin And Some Of The Film's Participants; Archival Interviews With Codirector Jean Rouch And Marceline Loridan, One Of The Film's Participants; New Interview With Anthropology Professor Faye Ginsburg, The Orginizer Of Several Rouch Retrospectives

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Edgar Morin	Actor
Jean Rouch	Actor

Technical Credits

Edgar Morin	Director
Jean Rouch	Director
Anatole Dauman	Producer
Philippe Lifchitz	Producer