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Director:
Andrzej Zulawski
Writers:
Christopher Frank (novel)
Christopher Frank (adaptation) ...
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Contact:
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Release Date:
April 1977 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies... more | add synopsis
Plot Keywords:
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Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Reviews:
Love is pain. more (6 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)
Romy Schneider ... Nadine Chevalier
Fabio Testi ... Servais Mont
Jacques Dutronc ... Jacques Chevalier
Claude Dauphin ... Mazelli
Roger Blin ... Le père de Servais / Servais's father
Gabrielle Doulcet ... Madame Mazelli
Michel Robin ... Raymond Lapade
Guy Mairesse ... Laurent Messala
Katia Tchenko ... Myriam, la putain
Nicoletta Machiavelli ... Luce, la femme de Lapade
Klaus Kinski ... Karl-Heinz Zimmer
Paul Bisciglia ... L'assistant-metteur en scène
Henri Coutet ... Le père de Jacques (scenes deleted)
Sylvain Levignac ... Le premier homme dans la brasserie (as Sylvain)
Andrée Tainsy ... La mère de Jacques (scenes deleted)
Olga Valéry ... La femme au godemiché
Jacques Boudet ... Robert Beninge
Robert Dadiès ... Le médecin à l'hôpital / Un acteur au théâtre
Georges-Fréderic Dehlen ... Un acteur au théâtre (as Georges F. Dehlen)
Jacques Jourdan ... Victor
Claude Legros ... Manuel Rosenthal
Maritin ... Le frère de Jacques (scenes deleted)
Kira Potonie ... La femme de Messala
Michel Such ... L'électricien
Jacques Van Dooren ... Verdurin
Nadia Vasil ... La réalisatrice
Sin May Zao ... La vietnamienne
Gérard Zimmermann ... Léonard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Philippe Clévenot ... (scenes deleted)

Sybil Danning ... (scenes deleted)
Marc Dudicourt ... (scenes deleted)
Zouzou ... (scenes deleted)
Frédérique Barral ... Une fille dans la brasserie (uncredited)
Claudine Beccarie ... La fille dans la partouze (uncredited)
Michel Berreur ... Le second homme dans la brasserie (uncredited)
Guy Delorme ... Un homme de main de Mazelli (uncredited)
Jerry Di Giacomo ... L'anglais en travesti (uncredited)
Michel Duchaussoy ... Karl-Heinz Zimmer (voice) (uncredited)
Josep Maria Flotats ... Servais Mont (voice) (uncredited)
Serge Godenaire ... L'éphèbe dans la partouze (uncredited)
Gérard Moisan ... Un autre homme de main de Mazelli (uncredited)
Manu Pluton ... L'homme au gymnase (uncredited)
Martine Sarcey ... Luce (voice) (uncredited)
Eric Vasberg ... Le troisième homme dans la brasserie (uncredited)
Howard Vernon ... (voice) (uncredited)
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Directed by
Andrzej Zulawski 
 
Writing credits
Christopher Frank (novel "La nuit americaine")

Christopher Frank (adaptation) &
Andrzej Zulawski (adaptation)

Christopher Frank (dialogue)

Produced by
Albina du Boisrouvray .... producer
Léo L. Fuchs .... associate producer
 
Original Music by
Georges Delerue 
 
Cinematography by
Ricardo Aronovich 
 
Film Editing by
Christiane Lack 
 
Production Design by
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko 
 
Costume Design by
Catherine Leterrier 
 
Makeup Department
Massimo De Rossi .... assistant makeup artist
Jean-Pierre Guérin .... hair stylist
Didier Lavergne .... makeup artist (as Daniel Lavergne)
 
Production Management
Alain Arthur .... assistant unit manager
Georges Casati .... production manager
Daniel Deschamps .... unit manager
Roland Godard .... assistant unit manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Laurent Ferrier .... assistant director
Philippe Lopez .... third assistant director
Franco Sormani .... second assistant director
 
Art Department
Pierre Roudeix .... props
Jean-Claude Sévenet .... property master
 
Sound Department
Daniel Couteau .... sound effects editor
Jacques Gérardot .... sound recordist
Maurice Laumain .... sound editor
Jean Nény .... sound mixer
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Walter Bal .... second assistant camera
Jean-Pierre Fizet .... still photographer
Andrzej Jaroszewicz .... assistant camera
Jacques Labesse .... camera operator
Flore Thulliez .... second assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Genevieve Sebestik .... assistant editor
Marie-Claude von Dorpp .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Claude Carliez .... fighting coordinator
Georges Martin-Cocher .... administrator
Élisabeth Rappeneau .... script girl
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
L'importante è amare (Italy)
La merci! (France) (working title)
Nachtblende
That Most Important Thing: Love (USA)
The Main Thing Is to Love
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Runtime:
109 min | Germany:105 min (cut)
Country:
France | Italy | West Germany
Language:
French
Colour:
Colour (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Netherlands:16 | France:-16 | USA:R | West Germany:18
Filming Locations:
Paris, France
Company:
Albina Productions S.a.r.l. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Romy Schneider' considered this movie her best work. more
Quotes:
Nadine Chevalier: I'm dubbing Jane Fonda. more
Movie Connections:
References Love Among the Millionaires (1930) more

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15 out of 18 people found the following review useful.
Love is pain., 3 August 2004
10/10
Author: audrius-darguzis from Vilnius, Lithuania.

A very simple, and (thus) extremely powerful film. And, sadly, underrated. It's a mind-opening experience. It doesn't say anything new or different on the subject, its simplicity and consistence shows loud and clear that...love is nothing but pain, but it's the only thing worth fighting (living; feeling pain) for; the only thing that sets you free. When Schneider's personage finds an earlier repulsive photograph dying in his desolated apartment you get to feel that now she cannot not love him... A very sincere, believable, touching film resembling real life and real love. Every actor's work is praise-worth, and worth the film's title. They knew what each of them were talking about. And no wonder Kinski took part in this. (The mood of this film is somehow similar to Last Tango in Paris.) You can almost feel wounded along with these 'people' that are being thrashed by love.

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