Love and Death

Love and Death
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWoody Allen
Written byWoody Allen
Produced byCharles H. Joffe
StarringWoody Allen
Diane Keaton
CinematographyGhislain Cloquet
Edited byRon Kalish
Ralph Rosenblum
Production
company
Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions[1]
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • June 10, 1975 (1975-06-10)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish
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]

  1. ^ a b "Love and Death". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Stafford, Jeff. "Love and Death (1975)". TCM. Archived from the original on 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2013-08-23. ... 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.