Love and Death

Love and Death
Love and Death
	Theatrical release poster
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
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	June 10, 1975;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3 million
Box office	$20.1 million

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]

^ ^a ^b "Love and Death". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
^ "Love and Death, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
^ 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.

[afi-1] "Love and Death". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved July 17, 2016.

[2] "Love and Death, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.

[tcmart-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.

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