IMMORTAL STORY, THE (BLU-RAY) (N/A QUEBEC)

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• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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 (the pen name of the Danish writer Karen Blixen) . Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-told yarn 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 preoccupations —a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality, with the specter of death looming over it all.;
• Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley, Fernando Rey, Karen Blixen, Louise de Vilmorin, Micheline Rozan, Willy Kurant, Yolande Maurette, Marcelle Pluet, Françoise Garnault, Claude Farny, Erik Satie
• Director: Orson Welles
• Runtime: 0:58
• Company: Omnia-Film, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), Albina Productions S.A.R.L., Gaumont, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie