Lower Depths, The: 2 Disc Special Edition - The Criterion Collection  /  DVD-Video
Standard 1.33:1 B&W  /  Production Year: 1936  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info Empire Reviews Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend All-Time Sales Rank: 825 Be the first customer to comment on this Title. Synopsis Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material, softening its bleak outlook. Kurosawa, firmly situated in the postwar world, found little reason for hope. He remained faithful to the original with its focus on the conflict between illusion and reality - a theme he would return to over and over again. Working with their most celebrated actors (Gabin with Renoir; Mifune with Kurosawa), each film offers a unique look at cinematic adaptation - where social conditions and filmmaking style converge to create unique masterpieces. Cast & Crew Directors:  • Jean Renoir  • Akira Kurosawa Product Information Features: (Les Bas-fonds) Jean Renoir 1936 Introduction to the film by Jean Renoir A new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939 (Donzoko) Akira Kurosawa 1957 Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie, author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film A 33-minute documentary on The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others Cast Biographies by Stephen Price, author of The Warriors Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa A new essay by authors Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature) Video: Standard 1.33:1 B&W Audio: (more info) FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: English Studio: Criterion Production Year: 1936 Release Date: 6/22/2004 Length: 125 mins Rating: NR Includes: Audio Commentary Packaging: Custom Case Number of Discs: 2 Empire SKU: 536896 Disc: SS-DL Item Code: LOW030 UPC Code: 037429181324 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Special Editions, Art House, Classics, Criterion Collection, Foreign, French Studios: Criterion Reviews Be the first customer to comment on this Title.