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Release Date:
10 June 1975 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Comedy Sensation of the Year!
Plot:
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. full summary | full synopsis
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Russia
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Army
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Slapstick
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Philosophy
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Stadium Vendor
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1 win
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1 nomination
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(5 articles)
Golden Horse Awards: Maggie Cheung, Ang Lee, Leon Dai, Tsai Ming-liang
(From FilmExperience. 30 November 2009, 6:07 AM, PST)
Could Carla Bruni be the next Mia Farrow?
(From The Guardian - Film News. 25 November 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 30 November 2009, 6:07 AM, PST)
Could Carla Bruni be the next Mia Farrow?
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The last of Woody's uneven (but still hilarious) comedies
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Woody Allen | ... | Boris Grushenko |
 | Diane Keaton | ... | Sonja |
 | Georges Adet | ... | Old Nehamkin |
| Frank Adu | ... | Drill sergeant |
| Edmond Ardisson | ... | Priest (as Edward Ardisson) |
 | Féodor Atkine | ... | Mikhail Grushenko (as Feodor Atkine) |
| Albert Augier | ... | Waiter |
| Yves Barsacq | ... | Rimsky (as Yves Barsaco) |
| Lloyd Battista | ... | Don Francisco |
| Jack Berard | ... | Gen. Lecoq |
| Eva Betrand | ... | Woman hygiene class |
| George Birt | ... | Doctor |
| Yves Brainville | ... | Andre |
 | Gérard Buhr | ... | Servant (as Gerard Buhr) |
| Brian Coburn | ... | Dimitri |
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Guerre et amour (France)
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85 min
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Australia:PG |
Netherlands:6 |
Brazil:12 |
USA:PG (certificate #24301) |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG
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The wheat scene with towards the end of the film is a direct visual parody of Ingmar Bergman's classic Persona (1966). The juxtaposition of faces is an homage to Bergman's trademark shots.
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Factual errors: In the scene where Sonja accompanies Beethoven's "Spring" violin sonata, the music on the piano is visibly an orchestral score, whereas the piece they are playing is a duo. Besides, the "violinist" never moves his left hand's fingers.
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Featured in The 100 Greatest War Films (2005) (TV)
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Love for 3 Oranges
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What is the music that plays in the opening and closing credits? Where else might I have heard it?Who plays Boris as a youngster?
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"Love and Death" is one of my favourite Woody Allen films, right up there with "Manhattan," "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "Deconstructing Harry." Sure, the jokes are scattershot and don't always work, but when they do the film is a gut-buster. ("A tremendous amount of wheat!") Parodying everything from Russian literature to foreign films (especially those of his beloved Ingmar Bergman), it's also one of Allen's most overtly philosophical films with characters breaking into syllogisms and formal arguments at the most unlikely moments. Students of philosophy should get a kick out of it.
That said, it is accessible to just about anybody. Almost nobody does fish-out-of-water comedy as well as Woody Allen (see also "Bananas" and "Sleeper"), and Diane Keaton shines as usual as the promiscuous object of his desire. And look for Jessica Harper in a small role as the cousin who rattles off a convoluted list of romantic entanglements worthy of Chekhov.
This was the last step of Allen's formative period. After this, his films would get a lot more focused.