The 400 Blows

Duration: 99

Genre: Crime Drama

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Films inc.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Tells the story of a young boy who is not loved at home or wanted at school and whose fugitive existence leads to a reform school. Presents an autobiographical work about director Francois Truffaut's childhood that dramatizes the universal experience of growing up. French with English subtitles.

Complete Record: , Truffaut drew upon his own anguished childhood to tell the story of Antoine Doinel, a 12-year-old schoolboy who lives at home in an atmosphere of indifference and suffers punishment at school. Eventually, he is sent to a reform school from which he escapes cross-country to the sea. The film's final freeze-frame is indelibly etched in film history. (Circulates) , Tells the story of a young boy who is not loved at home or wanted at school and whose fugitive existence leads to a reform school. Presents an autobiographical work about director Francois Truffaut's childhood that dramatizes the universal experience of growing up. French with English subtitles., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.