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Criminals England London Drama Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Drama Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) 1776-1822 Drama London (England) Drama Love Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Motion pictures, French Offenbach, Jacques 1819-1880 Film adaptations Operas Film adaptations World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war DramaFilter By Subjects
Criminals England London Drama Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Drama Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) 1776-1822 Drama London (England) Drama Love Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Motion pictures, French Offenbach, Jacques 1819-1880 Film adaptations Operas Film adaptations World War, 1939-1945 Motion pictures and the war DramaSummary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONSummary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIRSummary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009