Icarus Films Sets Marc Allégret’s Julietta For DVD Release On May 10 And Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses Follows On June 14

Icarus Films has added legendary French filmmaker Marc Allégret’s 1953 (1957, domestic theatrical debut) romantic comedy, Julietta, to its May 10 DVD release calendar.

Already in place on that date is his 1955 (1959 domestic) film adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which is noted for being the subject of the 1959 Supreme Court ruling that banning its exhibition in New York City was a violation of the First Amendment.

Julietta, adapted from Louise de Vilmorin’s 1951 novel, stars Dany Robin (Napoleon, Good Evening Paris, Waltz of the Toreadors, Topaz) as the title character, who has been roped into an arranged marriage with a much older man.  On her way to fulfill her commitment, she leaves the train and wanders the countryside until she happens upon the house of André Landrecourt (Jean Marais — Orpheus, Napoleon), a dashing young attorney who is engaged to a woman by the name of Rosie (played by Jeanne Moreau). 

Thus, a romantic juggling act begins.   Landrecourt tries to keep Julietta from upsetting Rosie … and in the end we know how that is going to work out!!

Julietta is presented in French with English subtitles.

Also added to the DVD release calendar this past week by Icarus Films is documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses, which will be making its debut on June 14.

The timing couldn’t be better.   If you want to understand how Vladimir Putin came to power, look no further than Mansky’s treasure trove of footage from his rise to power in 1999. 

Although a documentary, Putin’s Witnesses plays more like an arthouse thriller — think: filmmaker Costa-Gavras’ 1969 film release of Z.  

Mansky’s film worked the film festival circuit begin in the summer of 2018 (long before the current Ukraine situation) and piled up award after award as it moved around the world from festival-to-festival throughout all of 2019 and into the Pandemic shutdown of early 2020.

Now it will be available for all to watch as it moves into the home entertainment packaged media marketplace in mid-June.

As a bonus, Icarus Films is including director Tania Rakhmanova’s rarely seen 2005 film, How Putin Came to Power.

Both films are presented in Russian with English subtitles.