Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the ...
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Title: L'important c'est d'aimer (1975)
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| Romy Schneider | ... | Nadine Chevalier | |
| Fabio Testi | ... | Servais Mont | |
| Jacques Dutronc | ... | Jacques Chevalier | |
| Claude Dauphin | ... | Mazelli | |
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Roger Blin | ... | Le père de Servais |
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Gabrielle Doulcet | ... | Madame Mazelli |
| Michel Robin | ... | Raymond Lapade | |
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Guy Mairesse | ... | Laurent Messala |
| Katia Tchenko | ... | Myriam | |
| Nicoletta Machiavelli | ... | Luce | |
| Klaus Kinski | ... | Karl-Heinz Zimmer | |
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Paul Bisciglia | ... | L'assistant-metteur en scène |
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Henri Coutet | ... | Le père de Jacques (scenes deleted) |
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Sylvain Levignac | ... | Le premier homme dans la brasserie (as Sylvain) |
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Andrée Tainsy | ... | La mère de Jacques (scenes deleted) (as Andree Tainsy) |
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Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives Nadine a part. Nadine is torn apart between Servais, for whom she is falling in love, and her husband Jacques, to whom she has moral obligations. Written by Yuri German <blsidt1@imf.org>
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Language:
FrenchRelease Date:
April 1977 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
That Most Important Thing: Love See more »Filming Locations:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$5,370, 16 July 2017Gross USA:
$19,120Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Italian video version excludes some violent and explicit erotic scenes and runs 105 min. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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A very simple, and (thus) extremely powerful film. And, sadly, underrated. It's a mind-opening experience. It doesn't say anything new or different on the subject, its simplicity and consistence shows loud and clear that...love is nothing but pain, but it's the only thing worth fighting (living; feeling pain) for; the only thing that sets you free. When Schneider's personage finds an earlier repulsive photograph dying in his desolated apartment you get to feel that now she cannot not love him... A very sincere, believable, touching film resembling real life and real love. Every actor's work is praise-worth, and worth the film's title. They knew what each of them were talking about. And no wonder Kinski took part in this. (The mood of this film is somehow similar to Last Tango in Paris.) You can almost feel wounded along with these 'people' that are being thrashed by love.