Life and Nothing But

Life and Nothing But
US DVD cover
Directed byBertrand Tavernier
Written byJean Cosmos
Bertrand Tavernier
Based onThe General of the Dead Army
by Ismail Kadare
Produced byFrédéric Bourboulon
Albert Prévost
René Cleitman
CinematographyBruno de Keyzer
Distributed byUGC
Release date
  • 6 September 1989 (1989-09-06)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$11.3 million[1]

Life and Nothing But (French: La vie et rien d'autre) is a 1989 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It was inspired by the novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare titled The General of the Dead Army.[2]

  1. ^ "LA VIE ET RIEN D'AUTRE"
  2. ^ Guppy, Interviewed by Shusha (24 April 1998). "The Art of Fiction No. 153". The Paris Review. Vol. Summer 1998, no. 147.