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Immortal Story, The Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1968
Director: Orson Welles
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley
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Language: English, French
Release Date: 2016-08-30
Description

Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau, this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles’s artistic interests—a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality.