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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. 28 November 2009, 2:27 PM, PST)
Could Carla Bruni be the next Mia Farrow?
(From The Guardian - Film News. 25 November 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 28 November 2009, 2:27 PM, PST)
Could Carla Bruni be the next Mia Farrow?
(From The Guardian - Film News. 25 November 2009, 4:05 PM, PST)
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Woody Allen's best, and I own them all
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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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Also Known As:
Guerre et amour (France)
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85 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
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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Filmed mainly in Hungary, with some scenes done in Paris. It wouldn't be until 1996 and Everyone Says I Love You (1996) that Woody Allen would make another film outside of the New York area.
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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 100 Years of Comedy (1997) (V)
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The Magic Flute Overture
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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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People go on and on about "Annie Hall," which I must say I love, but "Love and Death" remains, for me, the best movie Woody Allen movie ever made. Why?
First, I love Dostoyevsky, and his twisted take on Dostoyevsky is so hilarious, but also so informed, that it lands me on my ass. Second, his dialogue is so
existentialist and yet so ridiculous ("Yes, but objectivity is subjective." "Not in any rational scheme of perception.") that it makes Ingmar Bergman look like a fool, which he isn't, but it's so much fun to deconstruct the big guy. Third, I love the scene when the little kid questions death about the afterlife. ("Are there girls?") I love the one-liners, especially when, surveying the battlefield with all the bodies lying around, Woody's companion says "He was our village idiot." and Woody
replies "So what did you do? Place?" Mainly I love it because it is intellectual but also as silly as hell. In the movie pantheon, Woody is up there in the godhead, along with Bergman and Dreyer. Alongside them, the world needs Woody, to
make it laugh about things that they make people think seriously about.