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1975

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Starring	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Alfred Lutter
Director	Woody Allen
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy

Love And Death

Woody Allen reinvents himself again with the epic historical satire, Love and Death. A wonderfully funny and eclectic distillation of the Russian literary soul, the film represents a bridge between Allen's early slapstick farces and his darker autobiographical comedies. One of his most visual, philosophical and elaborately conceived films, Love and Death demonstrates again that Allen is an authentic comic genius.

Cowardly scholar Boris Grushenko (Allen) has the hots for the beautiful Sonja (Diane Keaton), but cold feet for the Napoleonic Wars. Devastated by news of Sonja's plans to wed a foul-smelling herring merchant, Boris enlist in the army - only to return home a penniless hero! Finally agreeing to marry him, Sonja settles down with poor Boris to a rich life of philosophy, celibacy and meals of snow. But when the French troops invade Russia and Sonja hatches a zany scheme to assassinate Napoleon, Boris learns - in a hilarious but fatal coup attempt - that God is an underachiever, there are no girls in the afterlife and the Angel of Death just can't be trusted!

Starring	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Alfred Lutter, Feodor Atkine, Tony Jay, George Birt
Director	Woody Allen
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 21 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English, German
Subtitles	DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1975 To Rent: DVD: 19 Feb 2001

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- Personalized comedy fantasia inspired by War and Peace, Ingmar Bergman and S. J. Perelman. Basically only for star fans.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:41
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  Classic Allen (or Allen re-writes the Classics........... )
  
  Early Allen humour, based on The Great Russian Novel, with wonderful one-liners. If you like your humour laced with philosophical digressions, this is for you!
  
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  - Scotland
  - 28 Jan 2004 at 09:31
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  Disappointing indeed
  
  This is an early Woody Allen and I could easily have done without it. Do not find it funny.As much as I like later Allen films, this does not do it for me.
  
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  - 21 Mar 2011 at 13:47
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  One of Woody's best
  
  I loved this film when I first saw it 30 years ago, and it's still brilliant. Full of Allen's best jokes - Countess Alexandrovna such as 'You are ... read more »
  
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  - Dorking
  - 13 Dec 2009 at 23:28
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  Reliable Woody!
  
  No matter what Woody Allen uses as his backdrop for films, if you know his work it is still Woody Allen! This film bears no difference, set in Russia at the ... read more »
  
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Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007
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See the entire LOVEFiLM Bergman Collection here Checkmate. Death has finally taken the great Swedish master, Ingmar Bergman, as he always knew it must. No filmmaker wrestled longer and more painfully with the knowledge of his own mortality. His father was a severe Lutheran minister, and a figure who cast a long shadow over Bergman's films, including his premature swansong, Fanny and Alexander (1982), and perhaps his purest masterpiece, Winter Light (1962), a portrait of a pastor who has lost... Read more
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  Woody Allen reinvents himself again with the epic historical satire, Love and Death. A wonderfully funny and eclectic distillation of the Russian literary soul, the film represents a bridge between Allen's early slapstick farces and his darker autobiographical comedies. One of his most visual, ...