The 400 Blows [Les 400 Coups]

Paris: Athos Films, 1959. Vintage press sheet (i.e., a one-leaf version of a pressbook) for the 1959 French film. Text in French.

François Truffaut's auspicious debut, a semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy's estrangement from his family and school, leading him into a life of petty crime and culminating in trouble with the law. Winner of Best Director at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or.

Set in and shot on location in Paris, France.

Single sheet, 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #152701]