The Immortal Story [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Orson Welles

Overview

Immortal Story was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life, Mr. Clay (Welles) decides to play games with the lives of others. He decides to make the "immortal" legend of a sailor seducing a rich man's wife come true and even picks the sailor (Roger Coggio) himself. Through Mr. Clay's machinations, the sailor beds a beautiful younger woman (Jeanne Moreau) whom Clay pays to pose as his own wife. There's little more to the story than that, but Welles weaves his short tale with an economy and expertise which proves he hadn't lost his touch by 1969. Based on a story by Isaak Dinesen, The Immortal Story was originally made for French television; it was also the only Orson Welles-directed film to be released in color.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/30/2016
UPC:	0715515184519
Original Release:	1968
Rating:	NR
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Region Code:	A
Language:	English
Time:	0:58:00
Sales rank:	12,738

Special Features

New, restored 4k digital transfer of the English-language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Alternate French-language version of the film; Audio Commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin; Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary Directed by Fran?ois Reichenbach and Frederic Rossif; New Interview with actor Norman Eshley; Interview from 2004 with Cinematographer Willy Kurant; New interview with Welles scholar Fran?ois Thomas; Plus: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Orson Welles	Mr. Charles Clay
Jeanne Moreau	Virginie Ducrot
Roger Coggio	Elishama Levinsky
Norman Eshley	Paul
Fernando Rey	Merchant

Technical Credits

Orson Welles

Louise De Vilmorin

Orson Welles	Screenwriter
Louise De Vilmorin	Screenwriter
Micheline Rozan	Producer