Joyeux Noël [videorecording] = Merry Christmas / Sony Pictures Classics ; Nord-Ouest présente ; scénario original et dialogues, Christian Carion ; produit par Christophe Rossignon ; écrit et réalisé par Christian Carion.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 15099 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: French, English, German Original language: French, English, German Subtitle language: English, Portuguese, Spanish Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1424817625
- 9781424817627
- Merry Christmas
- Director of photography, Walther Vanden Ende ; editing, Andréa Sedlackova ; music composed, orchestrated and directed by Philippe Rombi ; production design, Jean Michel Simonet.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The year is 1914, and as World War I continues to rage across the European countryside, four individuals stuck on the front lines find themselves faced with the unthinkable in director Christian Carion's Academy Award-nominated account of the true-life wartime event that would offer hope for peace in mankind's darkest hour. When the war machines began rolling in the summer of 1914, the devastation that it waged upon German, British, and French troops was palpable. As the winter winds began to blow and the soldiers sat huddled in their trenches awaiting the generous Christmas care packages sent by the families, the sounds of warfare took a momentary backseat to the yearning for brotherhood among all of mankind. It is here that the fate of a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, a German tenor, and a Danish soprano's lives were about to be changed forever. On Christmas Eve of that year, the lonely souls of the front lines abandoned their arms to reach out to their enemies on the battlefield and greet them with not anger or hostility, but with the simple, kindly gesture of a much needed cigarette or a treasured piece of chocolate, and to put their differences aside long enough to wish their brothers a sincere "Merry Christmas!" ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
DVD release of the 2005 motion picture.
Region 1, anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Special features include: audio commentary with writer/director Christian Carion; interview with Christian Carion.
Director of photography, Walther Vanden Ende ; editing, Andréa Sedlackova ; music composed, orchestrated and directed by Philippe Rombi ; production design, Jean Michel Simonet.
Diane Krüger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon, Daniel Brühl, Alex Ferns, Steven Robertson, Frank Witter, Bernard Le Coq, Ian Richardson, Lucas Belvaux.
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some war violence and a brief scene of sexuality/nudity.
DVD.
French, English, and German soundtrack; optional English, Spanish, or Portuguese subtitles.