Orson Welles s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen (Babette s Feast). Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim), this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant (Masculin féminin) and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles s artistic interests a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality>
CONDITION: NEW
Actors: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Norman Eshley
Directors: Orson Welles
Format: Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
Unrated
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: August 30, 2016
Run Time: 58 minutes
Cast & Crew
Orson Welles Mr. Clay
Jeanne Moreau Viginie Ducrot
Roger Coggio Elishama Levinsky, the bookkeeper
Norman Eshley Paul, the sailor
Fernando Rey Merchant
Technical Credits
Orson Welles Director,Screenwriter
Pierre Cardin Costumes/Costume Designer
Louise DeVilmorin Screenwriter
Claude Farney Editor
Francoise Garnault Editor
Willy Kurant Cinematographer
Marc Maurette Production Manager
Yolande Maurette Editor
Andre Pitant Art Director
Marcelle Pluet Editor
Micheline Rozan Producer
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