In Love and War (1996 film)

In Love and War
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Attenborough
Written by	Allan Scott Clancy Sigal Anna Hamilton Phelan
Story by	Allan Scott Dimitri Villard
Based on	Hemingway in Love and War 1989 novel by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel
Produced by	Richard Attenborough
Starring	Sandra Bullock Chris O'Donnell Mackenzie Astin Emilio Bonucci
Cinematography	Roger Pratt
Edited by	Lesley Walker
Music by	George Fenton
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date	December 18, 1996 (1996-12-18)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Italian
Box office	$25,372,294[1]

In Love and War is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the book, Hemingway in Love and War by Henry S. Villard and James Nagel. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell, Mackenzie Astin, and Margot Steinberg. Its action takes place during the First World War and is based on the wartime experiences of the writer Ernest Hemingway. It was directed by Richard Attenborough. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

This film is largely based on Hemingway's real-life experiences in the First World War as a young ambulance-driver in Italy. He was wounded and sent to a military hospital, where he shared a room with Villard (who later wrote the book the movie is based on) and they were nursed by Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway and Kurowsky fell strongly in love, but somehow the relationship didn't work out.

The film—apparently in a deliberate attempt to capture what the director called Hemingway's "emotional intensity"—takes liberties with the facts. In real life, unlike the movie, the relationship was probably never consummated, and the couple did not meet again after Hemingway left Italy.^[3]

Hemingway, deeply affected by his romantic relationship with Kurowsky, later wrote several stories about it, including his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms.