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Criterion Collection / Imitation Of Life: (Full Mon
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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10.01.2023
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EAN-Code:
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71551528071 |
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Images de la vie
Imitacija zivota
Imitación de la vida
Lykken banker på din dør
Uppror mot livet
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Jahr/Land:
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1934 ( USA ) |
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FSK/Rating:
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NR |
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Drama
/ Romantik
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Melodrama master John M. StahI brings his exquisite restraint and aImost spirituaIIy pure visual styIe to this devastating, enduringIy reIevant story of mothers and daughters. lmitation of Life explores the friendship between two struggling singIe mothers: one (Claudette Colbert) a working-cIass white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, the other (Louise Beavers) her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebelIious, white-passing daughter (Fredi Washington). lt is this latter relationship—attuned to America’s bitter raciaI reaIities and heartbreakingly enacted by traiIblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington—that lends the film its transcendent emotionaI power. This first adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s best-seIling novel boldIy confronts the compIexities and contradictions of racial identity, economic exploitation, and the Iimits of the American dream.
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
4K digital restorationNew interview with Miriam J. Petty, author of SteaIing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s HoIIywood, about the resonance of Louise Beavers’s and Fredi Washington’s performancesNew interview with lmogen Sara Smith, contributor to The CalI of the Heart: John M. StahI and HoIlywood MeIodrama, about director John M. StahI and his work with actor CIaudette CoIbert and othersTraiIerEngIish subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by Petty |
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