TY - ADVS AU - Almendros,Nestor AU - Bennent,Heinz AU - Delerue,Georges AU - Deneuve,Catherine AU - Depardieu,Gérard AU - Dubost,Paulette AU - Ferréol,Andréa AU - Grumberg,Jean-Claude AU - Haudepin,Sabine AU - Insdorf,Annette AU - Poiret,Jean AU - Richard,Jean-Louis AU - Risch,Maurice AU - Schiffman,Suzanne AU - Toubiana,Serge AU - Truffaut,François AU - White,Armond ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Films du carrosse (Firm) ED - Janus Films. ED - MK2 Productions. ED - S.E.D.I.F. ED - Société française de production. ED - Société nationale télévision française 1. TI - Le dernier métro: Last metro T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 1604651202 PY - 2009/// CY - [Irvington, NY] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Actresses KW - France KW - Paris KW - Drama KW - Foreign films KW - Jewish men KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Motion pictures, French KW - Theater KW - Production and direction KW - Theatrical companies KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Theater and the war KW - Underground movements KW - History KW - German occupation, 1940-1945 KW - Feature films KW - Romance films KW - War films N1 - Disc two the supplements: Deleted scene (5 min.); "Les nouveaux rendez-vous" [featurette] (11 min.); "Passez donc me voir" [featurette] (7 min.); Performing "The Last Metro" [featurette] (15 min.); Visualizing "The Last Metro" [featurette] (10 min.); Working with Truffaut: Nestor Almendros [featurette] (28 min.) "Une histoire d'eau" [featurette] (12 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.); booklet includes the essay "Truffaut's Changing Times" by Armond White; Originally produced as a French motion picture in 1980; Disc one the movie; Occupation -- Real theater -- Rules and permits -- Performances -- Visitors -- Accepting everything -- Underground -- Smear campaign -- Suspicions -- Crazy ideas -- Plans -- Casting -- Discoveries -- Close call -- Unseen influences -- Fixing things -- Warnings -- Revelations -- Disastrous evening -- Missing -- Opening night -- Backstage -- Reviews -- New thoughts -- Ways out -- Resistance -- Inspection -- Stage design -- Two women -- Connections -- Curtain call -- Color bars; (1980) (131 min.); Special features: Commentary [by] Annette Insdorf [optional audio feature]; Commentary [by] Gérard Depardieu and Jean-Pierre Azéma [optional audio feature]; Image [cinematographer], Nestor Almendros ; montage [editor], Martine Barraqué ; musique, Georges Delerue ; décors [production design], Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko ; costumes, Lisele Roos; Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard, Sabine Haudepin, Maurice Risch, Heinz Bennent; MPAA Rating: Rated PG N2 - Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country, he is actually hiding in the basement ER -