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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Christopher Frank (novel)
Christopher Frank (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
April 1977 (USA) more
Plot:
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
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Ranks high in low points; perhaps supreme in post-La Dolce Vita emptiness. Romy a must-see. more (6 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Romy Schneider | ... | Nadine Chevalier |
| Fabio Testi | ... | Servais Mont |
| Jacques Dutronc | ... | Jacques Chevalier |
| Claude Dauphin | ... | Mazelli |
| Roger Blin | ... | Le père de Servais / Servais's father |
| Gabrielle Doulcet | ... | Madame Mazelli |
| Michel Robin | ... | Raymond Lapade |
| Guy Mairesse | ... | Laurent Messala |
| Katia Tchenko | ... | Myriam, la putain |
| Nicoletta Machiavelli | ... | Luce, la femme de Lapade |
| Klaus Kinski | ... | Karl-Heinz Zimmer |
| Paul Bisciglia | ... | L'assistant-metteur en scène |
| Henri Coutet | ... | Le père de Jacques (scenes deleted) |
| Sylvain Levignac | ... | Le premier homme dans la brasserie (as Sylvain) |
| Andrée Tainsy | ... | La mère de Jacques (scenes deleted) |
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Also Known As:
L'importante è amare (Italy)
Nachtblende
That Most Important Thing: Love (USA)
The Main Thing Is to Love
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Runtime:
109 min | Germany:105 min (cut)
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France | Italy | West Germany
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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'Romy Schneider' considered this movie her best work. more
Quotes:
Nadine Chevalier: I'm dubbing Jane Fonda. more
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References Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) more
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I'm not surprised to read here at IMDb that Romy called this her best work. She leads a cast of irresistible losers (Dutronc, Kinski, Testi) in the wholly believable debauchery that is so truly the amoral dilemma of the profession Maugham has called "THE show business". The physical electricity of these performers is such that I came away from it thirty years ago thinking that Miss Schneider was Brando's doppelganger. Or perhaps she WAS Brando! After all, they were never seen together, were they? If acting may be defined as the truthful response to fictional stimuli, then this film, which, by the way, must be screening daily in both Heaven and Hell, was perhaps shot in one cosmic take. These actors display - seamlessly - their bodies, their appetites, their loves, egos, ids and superegos. Never mind the sadness, life is for learning.