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Release Date: 1975
Cast: Frank Adu, Denise Peron, Olga Georges-Picot, Edmond Ardisson, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alfred Lutter, James Tolkan, Norman Rose, Georges Adet, Jessica Harper, Howard Vernon ...MORE
Cast: Frank Adu, Denise Peron, Olga Georges-Picot, Edmond Ardisson, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alfred Lutter, James Tolkan, Norman Rose, Georges Adet, Jessica Harper, Howard Vernon, Harold Gould ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy Of Errors, War Film, Comedy, Parody
Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen, a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Sonja and Boris, 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 Sonja and Boris, 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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