Vice and virtue = Le vice et la vertu
(DVD)

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Contributors
Vadim, Roger, film director,
Vailland, Roger screenwriter.
Poiré, Alain, film producer.
Girardot, Annie, 1931-2011 actor.
Hossein, Robert, 1927-2020, actor.
Published
New York : Kino Classics :, [2015].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
On Shelf
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Published
New York : Kino Classics :, [2015].
Language
fre
UPC
738329162528

Notes

General Note
Inspired by three novels of the Marquis de Sade: Justine, ou, Les malheurs de la vertu (originally published in 1791), La nouvelle Justine (originally published in 1797), and Histoire de Juliette, ou, Les prospérités du vice (originally published in 1797).
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Creation/Production Credits
Music, Michel Magne ; director of photography, Marcel Grignon.
Participants/Performers
Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein, Catherine Deneuve, O.E. Hasse, Valeria Ciangottini, Philippel Lemaire, Luciana Paluzzi.
Description
Two sisters, Juliette and Justine, take opposite paths during the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II. Juliette is a collaborator, while Justine supports the resistance movement. Justine is arrested and deported to a mysterious castle that is a brothel for Nazi officers. Juliette, the mistress of an SS colonel, finds Justine and tries to help her escape. But Justine wants to suffer the same fate as her fellow prisoners.
System Details
DVD format, NTSC ; region 1 ; aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Language
In French with optional English subtitles.

Subjects

LC Subjects
Drama.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Drama.
Nazis -- France -- Drama.
Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944 -- Drama.
Sade, -- marquis de, -- 1740-1814 -- Film adaptations.
Sisters -- France -- Drama.
Video recordings.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Drama.
Other Subjects
Feature films -- France.
Feature films -- Italy.
Feature films.
Foreign language films -- French.