The 400 blows / Janus Films ; MK2 Diffusion ; S.E.D.I.F. ; Les Films du Carrosse ; a film by François Truffaut ; directed by and original story by François Truffaut ; adaptation by Marcel Moussy and François Truffaut ; dialogue, Marcel Moussy.

[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

©2017

1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (6 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

For private home use only.

Fourteen-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.

Images / Video & Film

English; French

April 27, 2018

Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; music, Jean Constantin ; producer, Georges Charlot ; editors, Marie Josèphe Yoyotte, Cécile Decugis ; Michèle de Possel.

Starring Jean-Piere Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay.

DVD ; widescreen version: (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono, region 1 ; NTSC.

Not rated.

Special features: Two audio commentaries: one by cinema professor Brian Stonehill and another by François Truffanut's lifelong friend Robert Lachenay ; rare audition footage of Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick Auffay, and Richard Kanayan ; newsreel footage of Léaud in Cannes for the showing of "The 400 blows" ; excerpt from a French TV program with Truffaut discussing his youth, critical writings, and the origins of Antoine Doinel ; television intreview with Truffaut about the global financial reception of "The 400 blows" and his own critical impression of the film ; theatrical trailer.