Love and Death | |
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Directed by | Woody Allen |
Written by | Woody Allen |
Produced by | Charles H. Joffe |
Starring | Woody Allen Diane Keaton |
Cinematography | Ghislain Cloquet |
Edited by | Ron Kalish Ralph Rosenblum |
Production company | Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions[1] |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States[1] |
Language | English |
Budget | $3 million[citation needed] |
Box office | $20.1 million[2] |
Love and Death is a 1975 American comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is 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. Allen considered it the funniest film he had made up until that point.[3]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).... he was able to pay homage to some of his favorite films: a battlefield hawker who sells blinis to the troops recalls Harpo Marx in Duck Soup (1933), a dueling scene appears modeled on a Bob Hope routine in Monsieur Beaucaire (1946), the climax is a direct nod to Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) and the Scythian Suite by Stravinsky is used as background music in one scene, just as it was in Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky (1938). Famous dialogue from the novels of Tolstoy like War and Peace and Anna Karenina is also parodied along with in-jokes about the poetry of T.S. Eliot.