Love and Death

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Summary:
Woody Allen's Love and Death is purportedly a satire of all things Russian, from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky novels to Sergei Eisenstein films, but it plays more like a spin on Bob Hope's Monsieur Beaucaire. Allen plays Boris, a 19th century Russian who falls in love with his distant (and married) cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton). Pressed into servic... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Woody Allen - (Boris)
Diane Keaton - (Sonia)
Harold Gould - (Anton Ivanovitch)
Sol Frieder - (Leonid Voskovec)
Olga Georges-Picot - (Countess Alexandrovna)
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Review:
Before Woody Allen made Annie Hall, the first in a long series of romantic comedies and/or personal dramas about neurotic New Yorkers (and, to a large degree, himself), he made a series of wildly funny absurdist comedies, of which Love and Death was probably the best. Dominated by knowing parodies of Russian literature with a d... Continue >>

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