Directed by Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend is an Academy Award winning drama that offers an unflinching portrayal of alcoholism and personal collapse. The film won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Ray Milland, and follows a writer whose addiction drives him through a harrowing weekend in New York. Celebrated for its realism and psychological intensity, it remains a landmark in socially conscious American cinema.

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Directed by Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot), this gut-wrenching adaptation of Charles Jacksons The Lost Weekend horrified its studio, was rejected by test audiences, and was lobbied by temperance groups, yet went on to huge success and became the awards sensation of its year.

Ray Milland stars as Don Birnam, a New York author struggling with years of alcoholism and writers block. Trying to keep him on the path to rehabilitation are his straight-laced brother Wick (Philip Terry) and devoted long-time girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman). When Don absconds from a country excursion, he embarks on a four-day binge, spiralling towards rock bottom.

Winner of the Grand Prix at the first ever Cannes Film Festival, as well as Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay, this brutal noir provided one of cinemas first in-depth studies of addiction. Crackling with rapier dialogue, vivid performances, and Wilders superlative direction, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present The Lost Weekend for the first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray.

Från IMDB:
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

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Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : English

Färg : Black & White