Cast & Crew
C
Claude Pignot
Production Design
D
Denys Clerval
Director of Photography
A
Agnès Guillemot
Editor
Movie Details
Theatrical Release:February 1st, 1969
On DVD & Blu-ray:August 24th, 1999
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Movie Budget:$350,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$1,500,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:French
Production Companies:Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Collection
The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.
