The 400 blows
Subtitle: Les quatre cents coups
By: S.E.D.I.F. and Les Films du carrosse ; directed by François Truffaut ; original story by François Truffaut ; adaptation and dialogue by Marcel Moussy
Contributors: Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 1944-; Maurier, Claire; Remy, A. (Albert); Decomble, Guy
Publisher: Home Vision; Distributed by Public Media, Inc.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: [Massachusetts?]
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Feature films
Other titles: The four hundred blows
Work titles: Quatre Cents Coups
Description: Thirteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Notes: "A Janus Films presentation."

French dialogue with English subtitles.

Originally issued as a motion picture in France in 1959.

"Fou 040."

Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; editor, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte ; music, Jean Constantin ; production administrator, Georges Charlot ; subtitle adaptation, Laurent Bouzereau.

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble.