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A Walk With Love and Death

 

 

Written and Directed by John Huston

US 1969 / Romance / Historical / Period / Costume Adventure / Drama / 90 min / Color / Monaural / 1.85: 1  Widescreen Anamorphic / PAL / In English with Optional English Subtitles




Assaf Dayan, Anjelica Huston, Anthony Corlan, John Hallam, Robert Lang, Guy Deghy, Michael Gough .

This 'lost' late 60s' cult classic by John Huston (The African Queen, The Misfits, The Night of the Iguana) stars his daughter Anjelica Huston aged 17, in her first acting role.

'In the 14th Century, England and France were engaged in a war that would last a hundred years. Claudia and Heron were born after the war began, and would die before it ended...'

With this brief prologue begins John Huston's A Walk with Love and Death, a story of a student, Heron (Assi Dayan), who leaves Paris to walk to the sea but encounters Claudia (Anjelica Huston), a young noblewoman with whom he falls in love and pledges to protect after her home is destroyed in a peasant revolt.

Filmed in 1968, (the same year as Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet) Huston's tale of young lovers adrift in France during the Middle Ages owes more to the spirit of the late 1960s in its questioning of authority and insistence on love, not war.

Based on Hans Koningsberger's novel of the same name it stars a seventeen-year-old Anjelica Huston in her first acting role and features a wonderful score by Georges Delerue with one of his most haunting love themes.

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Extras
* Walking with Love and Death (1968): Behind-the-scenes footage of Huston on set, directing the actors
* Illustrated booklet with an original essay by Hans Koningsberger on the filming of his book (from Film Quarterly, Spring 1969); a review from Monthly Film Bulletin, February 1977; cast and credits
* Dolby Digital mono audio (320 kbps)