"Follows a successful yet sickly young man who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend - now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic - and the provincial life he represents."--Container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958. Special features: audio commentary by Chabrol scholar Guy Austin; Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film, a documentary by Francis Girod ; 1969 segment of the French television series, L'invité du Dimanche in which Chabrol and journalist Bertrand Jérôme return to the town where Beau Serge was shot; theatrical trailer. Program notes featuring essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty inserted in container.