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Release Date: 1975 Cast: Georges Adet, James Tolkan, Alfred Lutter, Woody Allen, Edmond Ardisson, Frank Adu, Olga Georges-Picot, Norman Rose, Denise Peron, Diane Keaton, Howard Vernon, Harold Gould ...MORE
Cast: Georges Adet, James Tolkan, Alfred Lutter, Woody Allen, Edmond Ardisson, Frank Adu, Olga Georges-Picot, Norman Rose, Denise Peron, Diane Keaton, Howard Vernon, Harold Gould, Jessica Harper ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Comedy of Errors, War film Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen, a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era, who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates.
Coming between Allen's Sleeper and Annie Hall, it is in many respects an artistic transition between the two. Allen considers it the funniest film he had made to that time.
When Napoleon invades the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic wars, Boris Grushenko (Allen), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian Army, desperate and disappointed... MORE
Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen, a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era, who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates.
Coming between Allen's Sleeper and Annie Hall, it is in many respects an artistic transition between the two. Allen considers it the funniest film he had made to that time.
When Napoleon invades the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic wars, Boris Grushenko (Allen), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian Army, desperate and disappointed hearing the news that his cousin Sonja (Keaton) is to wed a herring merchant. He inadvertently captures a group of enemy soldiers, but to no avail, as the French army reaches Moscow immediately afterward. He returns and marries the recently-widowed Sonja (who really does not want to marry Boris, but promises him she will when she thinks he is about to be killed in a duel), a marriage filled with philosophical debates, and no money. Boris thinks that the French invasion of Moscow should put an end to the war. His narcissistic wife, angered that the invasion will interfere with their plans to start a LESS
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