Description
| Summary: | Les hommes libres: "1942, in German-occupied Paris. Younes, a young unemployed Algerian, earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspects the Mosque authorities, among which its rector Ben Ghabrit (played by Michael Lonsdale), of aiding Muslim Resistance agents, as well as helping North African Jews, by giving them false certificates. At the Mosque, Younes meets the Algerian singer Salim Halali, and is moved by Salim's beautiful voice and strong personality. A deep friendship develops, and soon after Younes discovers that Salim is Jewish. In spite of the risks it entails, Younes stops collaborating with the police, and gradually develops from being a politically ignorant immigrant worker into a fully-fledged freedom fighter."--PDF Free men press kit.
Lustig: "Carrying haunting memories from time spent in a concentration camp, a man seeks out the surviving members of the Lustig family. He brings a secret to their doorstep that only the strength and courage of the deceased allows him to reveal."--Container.
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| Item Description: | Title from disc label.
"Les hommes libres" produced in France as a motion picture in 2001 and "Lustig" originally produced in the United States as a motion picture 2007.
Special features include Free men's biographies and theatrical trailer; trailers from Film Movement.
Wide screen (2.35:1) (Les hommes libres); widescreen (1.78:1), full screen letterboxed (Lustig).
RB Media: DW0068. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (99 min., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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| Audience: | MPPA rating: Not rated. |
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| Production Credits: | Les hommes libres: cinematographer, Jérôme Alméras; editor, Annette Dutertre; music, Armand Amar.
Lustig: Director of photography, Max Fischer; editor, Nick Wurz. |
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| ISBN: | 9781464026317
1464026319
9781464042836
1464042837 |
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| Participant or Performer: | Les hommes libres: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmoud Shalaby, Lubna Azabal, Christopher Buchholz.
Lustig: Jeff Wincott, Ilka W. Fischer, Alex O'Meara, Scott Carter. |
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| Language: | Les hommes libres: in French with optional English subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Lustig: in German with English subtitles. |
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