Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 29, 2019
Price: DVD $13.29, Blu-ray $19.89
Studio: KinoLorber
From the great Jean Renoir (The River) comes the 1938 classical music-filled historical epic drama La Marseillaise, which tells the story of the French Revolution with scope and intimacy.
Disregarded in its time, La Marseillaise is only now emerging as a remarkably innovative work of historical excavation.
Made towards the end of France’s left wing Popular Front government when Europe was on the brink of war, La Marseillaise is a markedly political film about a country in flux. Funded by a public subscription service and filmed in a jaunty newsreel style, it follows a cross-section of people—from the citizens of Marseilles to Louis XVI—who are affected by the shifting political and social forces in the early days of the French Revolution.
Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray and DVD editions contain the following:
-Audio commentary by film critic Nick Pinkerton
-Archival interview with Jean Renoir
-Booklet essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew
Buy or Rent La Marseillaise
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