Love and Death (2000)
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Director:Woody Allen
Studio:MGM (Video & DVD)
Rating:4.5 (83 votes)
Date Added:2009-04-20
ASIN:0792846095
UPC:9780792846093
Genre:Comedy
Release:2000-07-05
Location:0764
Duration:85
Picture Format:Anamorphic Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Languages:English, Spanish
Subtitles:Spanish, French
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Woody Allen  ...  (Director)
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Woody Allen  ...  
Diane Keaton  ...  
Féodor Atkine  ...  
Olga Georges-Picot  ...  
Summary: Writer-director Woody Allen's 1975 comedy finds the familiar Allen persona transposed to 19th-century Russia, as a cowardly serf drafted into the war against Napoleon, when all he'd rather do is write poetry and obsess over his beautiful but pretentious cousin (Diane Keaton). A total disaster as a soldier, Allen's cowardice serves him well when he hides in a cannon and is shot into a tent of French soldiers, suddenly making him a national hero. After his cousin agrees to marry him, thinking he'll be killed in a duel he miraculously survives, the couple must hatch a ludicrous plot to assassinate Napoleon in order to keep the coward Allen out of yet another war. Allen and Keaton show what a perfect comic team they make in this film, even predating their most celebrated pairing in "Annie Hall". Working so well as the most unlikely of comedies, of all things a hilarious parody of Russian literature, "Love and Death" is a must-see for fans of Woody Allen films. "--Robert Lane"