Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Interesting first (silent) movie from Renoir he realized so his wife could have the leading role of Catherine. The movie became an object of quarrel between Renoir and Dieudonné who directed this vehicle together and each played also a part in the movie. Was this a Renoir movie or one of Dieudonné, reducing Renoir to its pupil? The dispute became so heavy 2 versions exist, one cut by Renoir and one by Dieudonné.

Full of atmosphere, intensely tragic, studded with artistic touches of direction, action and photography, it's the filming of the story behind a rural police case. Takes place in the south of France and was filmed on the spot. Actors are all unknown but highly competent. Director Jean Renoir says he chose them obscure, not only for economy, but cause unknown people can act the way they like and script requires. Locale is a region not far from Marseilles where there are a lot of Italian and Spanish laborers who work in quarries and till the soil. Fine guitar music, always apropos, provides relief and augmentation pf the drama. There are not slow spots; tragedy is deliberately and regularly developed. Directed by Jean Renoir Produced by Pierre Gault Written by Carl Einstein, L. Lebert, Jean Renoir THE CAST Charles Blavette Antonio Toni Canoua), Celia Montalvan (Josepha), Jenny Helia (Marie), Edouard Delmont (Fernand), Andrex (Gaby) Running Time:83m Language:French Subtitle:Chinese B&W/Stereo/1935 4:3/DVD-5

La Chienne (1931) / Region Free DVD / Audio: French / Subtitle: Chinese / Starring: Georges Flamant, Janie Marèse, Michel Simon, Magdeleine Bérubet, Roger Gaillard / Director: Jean Renoir

The Southerner/ All region DVD / 1945 / Audio: English / Subtitle: Chinese / Directed by Jean Renoir / Starred by Betty Field, Zachary Scott

The Lower Depths (Kurosawa 1957) / The Lower Depths (Renoir 1936) / All Region DVD / Audio: French / Subtitle: English, Chinese / Starring: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim Director: Akira Kurosawa, Jean Renoir ASIN: B0036WC23M DVD Region Code: 0

La Regle Du Jeu (1939) / All Region DVD / Audio: French / Subtitle: English, Chinese / Written by: Jean Renoir, Carl Koch / Starring: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Marcel Dalio, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette Diretor: Jean Renior ASIN: 7884063085 DVD Region Code: 0

It's long been one of the revered classics of international cinema, but there is no fine layer of dust over La Grande Illusion. Jean Renoir's film is just as vibrant, exciting, and wise as it has ever been. The story is set during World War I, mostly in a couple of German POW camps, where two very different French prisoners plot to escape: the working-class officer Maréchal (Jean Gabin, the French Spencer Tracy) and the upper-class de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay). The suspenseful backbone of the story is formed by these escape attempts, but Renoir is primarily concerned with the way people treat each other, and especially with how class and nationality inform human relations. Most compelling of all the film's characters is the aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, unforgettably incarnated by stiff-backed Erich von Stroheim; although he runs a prison camp, von Rauffenstein cannot help but strike up a friendship with de Boieldieu, a kindred spirit from the doomed nobility. There is nothing dewy or naive about Renoir's vision (and two years after the release of this antiwar film, Europe was plunged into another world war), yet Grand Illusion is one of those movies that makes you feel good about such long-outmoded ideas as sacrifice and brotherhood. After it won a prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1937, the Nazis declared the film "Cinematographic Enemy Number One." There can be no higher praise. --Robert Horton

Director Jean Renoir's entrancing first color feature-shot entirely on location in India-is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir's subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its peoples, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.