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Frankrijk
Drama
90 minuten

geregisseerd door Jean Renoir
met Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván en Max Dalban

Toni, een jonge Italiaan, arriveert in Frankrijk en vindt werk in een groeve. Hij vindt onderdak bij een jonge vrouw, Marie, die verliefd op hem wordt. Toni is echter verliefd op Josepha, maar als zij verkracht wordt door zijn voorman Albert, moet hij niets meer van haar weten. Om een schandaal te vermijden trouwt Albert met Josepha en Toni met Marie. Als Josepha haar man bedriegt mishandeld hij haar maar in de ontstane vechtpartij dood ze hem. Toni biedt vervolgens aan om het lichaam te verbergen. Dit wordt gezien door een politieman die daaruit zijn conclusies trekt.


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TONI (1935)


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User Rating: 7.6/10 327 votes


Masters of Cinema Collection # 28

DVD Release Date: April 17, 2006


Director: Jean Renoir

Description
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Financed by Marcel Pagnol's production company, Jean Renoir's Toni is a landmark in French filmmaking. Based on a police dossier concerning a provincial crime of passion, it was lensed by Claude Renoir on location (unusually for the time) in the small town of Les Martigues where the actual events occurred. The use of directly-recorded sound, authentic patois, lack of make-up, a large ensemble cast of local citizens in supporting roles, and Renoir's steadfast desire to avoid melodrama lead to Toni often being labeled 'the first neorealist film'.

Toni's story centres on an Italian immigrant, Antonio Canova (Charles Blavette), a labourer at a local quarry who has become entangled in relationships with his landlady (Jenny Helia) and with the young, hot-blooded Spaniard, Josefa (Celia Montalvan). As Josefa's life disintegrates through rape and a necessitous marriage to the brutish foreman Albert (Max Dalban), Toni is caught up in a series of marriages gone sour and the psychological fragility of those he cares for.

Renoir's vision of realism approaches a purity sometimes found in documentary, whilst retaining the literary power and emotion of Balzac, Flaubert and Zola. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Toni for the first time on DVD in the West.


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 5.93 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 82 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 OAR

Sound (main feature): French

Subtitles: optional English



DISC FEATURES:

# New progressive transfer.
# Full length audio commentary by Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate.
# Video introduction by NFT programmer Geoff Andrew.
# Promotional material gallery.
# New and improved optional English subtitles.



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