Cartesius / Janus Films ; Istituto Luce (Roma) ; producer, Renzo Rossellini ; screenplay and dialogue by Roberto Rossellini, Luciano Scaffa, Marcella Mariani ; director, Roberto Rossellini.

René Descartes was known as the "Father of modern philosophy." Depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. An intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Rossellini's history films. Series 14,
Corporate Authors: Janus Films
Istituto Luce (Italy)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Rossellini, Renzo, 1908-1982
Rossellini, Roberto, 1906-1977
Scaffa, Luciano
Mariani, Marcella
Cardea, Ugo
Pouchie, Anne
Banchero, Gabriele
Belton, Kenneth
Dobtcheff, Vernon, 1934-
Montalbano, Renato
Language:Italian
English
Language of the Original:
Italian
Language and/or Writing System:
Italian dialogue, English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
Edition:Full screen.
Series:Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Rossellini's history films.
Subjects:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650 > Drama.
Philosophers > Drama.
Reasoning > Drama.
Wisdom > Drama.
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Feature films.
Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Genre:
Drama.
Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Feature films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD

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