La poison
By: director Sacha Guitry
Contributors: Reuver, Germaine, 1885-1953, actor; Simon, Michel, 1895-1975, actor; Debucourt, Jean, 1894-1958, actor; Varennes, Jacques, 1894-1958, actor; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Special edition.
Series: Criterion collection; Criterion collection
Published: 2017
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781681433462
Subjects: Drama; Married people; Murder
Description: After thirty years together, a village gardener and his wife find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he'll negotiate his eventual criminal trial.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.

1.37:1 aspect ratio.

Special features: new interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry's influence on French cinema; On life on-screen: miseries and splendour of a monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon; an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for guitry by François Truffaut.

Germaine Reuver, Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes.

DVD.

French dialogue; English subtitles.