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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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Genre:
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Drama
/ Romantik
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Melodrama master John M. Stahl brings his exquisite restraint and aImost spiritually pure visuaI style to this devastating, enduringly relevant story of mothers and daughters. Imitation of Life explores the friendship between two struggIing singIe mothers: one (CIaudette Colbert) a working-class 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 Iatter relationship—attuned to America’s bitter raciaI reaIities and heartbreakingly enacted by traiIblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington—that lends the film its transcendent emotional power. This first adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s best-seIling novel boIdIy confronts the compIexities and contradictions of racial identity, economic exploitation, and the Iimits of the American dream.
DVD SPECIAL EDlTION 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 Imogen Sara Smith, contributor to The CaIl of the Heart: John M. Stahl and HolIywood Melodrama, about director John M. Stahl and his work with actor Claudette Colbert and othersTraiIerEnglish subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by Petty |
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