Hitchcock/Truffaut

Release date: 2015-09-05
Votes: 246
Genres: Documentary
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
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