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Criterion Collection # 416

DVD Release Date: January 22, 2008


Director: Alf Sjoberg


Zweden
Drama
90 minuten

geregisseerd door Alf Sjöberg
met Anita Björk, Ulf Palme en Märta Dorff

Een verveelde dochter van een graaf mengt zich tijdens het midzomernachtsfeest tussen de feestgangers. Ze daagt een ijdele knecht van haar vader uit die eerst protesteert over het klasseverschil maar toch de nacht met haar doorbrengt. Bij thuiskomst van de graaf pleegt ze uit schaamte zelfmoord. Filmbewerking van August Strindbergs drama.

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Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjoberg?s visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix-winning adaptation of August Strindberg?s renowned 1888 play brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage?s preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations. Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when a wealthy businessman?s daughter (Anita Bjork, in a fiercely emotional performance) falls for her father?s bitter servant. Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Sjoberg?s film was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema.


READ:
Miss Julie: Fiery Gloom Onstage
by Birgitta Steene
criterion.com/current/posts/625-miss-julie-fiery-gloom-onstage


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.63 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 90 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): Swedish

Subtitles: optional English


DISC FEATURES:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# New video essay by film historian Peter Cowie.
# Archival television interview with director Alf Sjoberg.
# A 2006 television documentary about the play Miss Julie and dramatist August Strindberg.
# Theatrical trailer.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.
# PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by film scholars Peter Matthews and Birgitta Steene.


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