L'argent
By: producers, Jean-Marc Henchoz, Daniel Toscan du Plantier ; written and directed by Robert Bresson
Contributors: Patey, Christian, actor; Risterucci, Vincent, actor; Lang, Caroline, actor; Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Series: The Criterion collection -- 886; Criterion collection -- 886.
Published: 2017
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Drama; Money; Avarice; Film adaptations; Judicial error
Other titles: Argent (Motion picture)
Description: A counterfeit 500-franc note sets off a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal that leads to an innocent man's arrest and his eventual destruction.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.

Based on the short story "Faux billet" by Tolstoï.

Mono, wide screen 1.66:1.

Essay by critic Adrian Martin and a newly expanded 1983 interview with director Robert Bresson by critic Michel Ciment in container.

Features: press conference from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival; new video essay "L'argent, A to Z" by film scholar James Quandt; trailer; new English subtitle translation.

Christian Patey, Vincent Risterucci, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet.

MPAA rating: Not rated

For private home use only.

In French with optional English subtitles.