La mariée était en noir / The Bride Wore Black DVD 1968 A Menyasszony feketében volt / Directed by Francois Truffaut / Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich

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REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: French 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 103 minutes

English Summary:

The Bride Wore Black (French: La Mariée était en noir) is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich.

As the film opens, Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) tries to throw herself out of an upstairs window, but is stopped by her mother (Luce Fabiole). Julie is dressed in black and is obviously grief-stricken. In the next scene, she is more composed, telling her mother she is going on a long trip, and counting out five piles of money. She gets onto a train, but right afterwards steps down on the opposite side, hidden from onlookers.

The next time Julie is seen, her hair is different, she is wearing white, and looking for a man called Bliss (Claude Rich). He is a ladies' man who is having a party on the eve of his wedding. When Julie arrives, aloof but attractive, he cannot resist approaching her. When they are alone on the balcony of Bliss's high-rise apartment, she tells him her name and pushes him off the balcony.

Her next victim is Coral (Michel Bouquet), a lonely bachelor. She lures him to a concert and they agree to meet the following night. Before their rendezvous, Julie buys a bottle of arak and injects a syringe of poison into it. When she meets Coral at his apartment, she serves him the drink. When he collapses in agony, she reveals her identity to him. He begs for his life, explaining that it was all an accident. In a flashback, there is a wedding procession on the steps of a church; a single shot rings out and the groom falls to the ground. Julie is the widowed bride.

Hungarian Summary:

Julie Kohler egymás után felkutat öt férfit, és a legfurfangosabb módon meggyilkolja őket; áldozatai közé tartozik egy fiatal festő is, aki iránt vonzódik. A nő így akarja megbosszulni szerelmese halálát: vőlegénye az esküvő előtt a templom lépcsőjén lelte a halálát, annak következtében, hogy gondatlanul bántak a vadászfegyverrel.

French Summary:

Cinq hommes, dans un jeu qui tourne mal, abattent le marié à la sortie d'une cérémonie de mariage. Peu de mystère, c'est l'histoire d'une vengeance, lente, raffinée et surtout utilisant les visions différentes que portent les cinq hommes sur la femme idéale. Chacun mourra, non pas suivant sa faute, mais conformément à sa personnalité. Fergus (Charles Denner), l'artiste, mettra en scène et transformera sa propre mort en œuvre d'art.

Cast / Distribution / Szereplők:

• Jeanne Moreau as Julie Kohler
• Michel Bouquet as Coral
• Jean-Claude Brialy as Corey
• Charles Denner as Fergus
• Claude Rich as Bliss
• Michel Lonsdale as Clément Morane
• Daniel Boulanger as Delvaux
• Serge Rousseau as David
• Alexandra Stewart as Mlle Becker
• Christophe Bruno as Cookie Morane