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The Criterion Collection, 1971-87. DVD Movie. Fine copy/fine. DVD movies. 4 discs, each with a booklet, in a slip-case. The set includes three classic films, plus a documentary about Malle and the complete Charlie Chaplin film which is partially shown in Au revoir les enfants. The films are in French with optional English subtitles and have the widescreen format. Le souffle au coeur: 1971, 118 minutes, starring Benoît Ferreux, Leá Massari, Daniel Gélin. Lacombe, Lucien: 1974, 138 minutes, starring Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler. Au revoir les enfants: 1987, 101 minutes, starring Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö. The three films are superb and much could be said about each of them. Lacombe, Lucien is set in a small town in the southwest of France in 1944. Lucien is a farm boy who by accident comes to work for the collaborationist police which gives him status and considerable power. He is taken to a Jewish tailor, who is in hiding with his elderly mother and young daughter,…
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