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Writer:
Jean Gruault (writer)
Release Date:
20 April 1983 (France)
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Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest...
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2 nominations
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2 utopian/idealistic experiments are contrasted... with fallible human beings responsible for results
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vittorio Gassman | ... | Walter Guarini |
| Ruggero Raimondi | ... | Comte Michel Forbek / Count Michel Forbek |
| Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Nora Winkle |
| Fanny Ardant | ... | Livia Cerasquier |
| Pierre Arditi | ... | Robert Dufresne |
| Sabine Azéma | ... | Élisabeth Rousseau |
| Robert Manuel | ... | Georges Leroux |
| Martine Kelly | ... | Claudine Obertin |
| Samson Fainsilber | ... | Zoltán Forbek |
| Véronique Silver | ... | Nathalie Holberg |
| André Dussollier | ... | Raoul Vandamme |
| Guillaume Boisseau | ... | Frédéric |
| Sabine Thomas | ... | Marie |
| Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | ... | School Teacher |
| Rodolphe Schacher | ... | Pierre |
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Also Known As:
Life Is a Bed of Roses (USA)
A Vida É um Romance (Brazil) (TV title) (Portugal) [pt]
La vida es una novela (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Das Leben ist ein Roman (West Germany) [de]
I zoi einai ena romantzo (Greece) [el]
La vita è un romanzo (Italy) [it]
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A Vida É um Romance (Brazil) (TV title) (Portugal) [pt]
La vida es una novela (Argentina) (Mexico) [es]
Das Leben ist ein Roman (West Germany) [de]
I zoi einai ena romantzo (Greece) [el]
La vita è un romanzo (Italy) [it]
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110 min | Argentina:111 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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A utopian experiment around the time of World War 1 is contrasted with an educational concourse/seminar of today. Both experiments look at idealistic solutions for the problems humans have of living with one another. Both experiments are "polluted" by idealism itself and by the very real human beings who take part in the experiments. Making a movie about philosophy is strange enough.... but this movie is a MUSICAL... and the music is lovely. The most interesting thing is that the tragedy and madness of the first experiment is contrasted with the comedy of the failure of the second experiment to make a broad statement about the inevitable failure of idealism in a world of fallible human beings. This technique is similar to Griffith's cutting in Intolerance.... Even as you laugh at the comedy, you can see how easy it would have been to fall into tragedy. The film is a perfect delight that sticks with you.
The two utopian experiments are contrasted with a medieval story that seems to comment on the other two stories....In fact, the medieval story is an idealistic view of the world as the children see it. So there are, in fact, three ideals contrasted. This makes for a very complicated structure which you may ignore if you just want to watch the interactions of the characters or listen to the delightful music.