Live for Life

1967 French film

Claude Lelouch
Pierre Uytterhoeven

Produced by

Georges Dancigers
Alexandre Mnouchkine

Starring

Yves Montand
Candice Bergen
Annie Girardot

CinematographyPatrice PougetEdited byClaude Barrois
Claude LelouchMusic byFrancis LaiDistributed byUnited Artists

Release date

1967 (1967)

Running time

130 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrenchBox office$400,000 (US)^[1]

Live for Life (French: Vivre pour vivre) is a 1967 French film directed by Claude Lelouch starring Yves Montand, Candice Bergen and Annie Girardot. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[2] The film had a total of 2,936,035 admissions in France and was the 7th highest-grossing film of the year.^[3]

Plot

Robert Colomb (Yves Montand) is a famous TV newscaster, married to Catherine (Annie Girardot), but continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice (Candice Bergen). He takes her along on an assignment in Kenya and later establishes an "arrangement" with her in Amsterdam.

He is then assigned to Vietnam, tells Candice their affair is over and discovers that is more than acceptable to her as she is tired of him. Returning from a Vietnamese prison, he decides to return to Catherine, but discovers she has made a new life for herself.

Cast

Yves Montand as Robert Colomb
Candice Bergen as Candice
Annie Girardot as Catherine Colomb
Irène Tunc as Mireille
Anouk Ferjac as Jacqueline
Uta Taeger as Lucie/maid
Jean Collomb as Waiter
Michel Parbot as Michel
Amidou as Photographer
Jacques Portet as Candice's friend/photographer

References

^ Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p. 231
^ "The 40th Academy Awards (1968) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
^ "Vivre pour vivre (1967) - JPBox-Office".

External links

Live for Life at IMDb
Live for Life at AllMovie

Films directed by Claude Lelouch

Le propre de l'homme
In the Affirmative
La femme spectacle
24 heures d'amant
...pour un maillot jaune
The Grand Moments
Une fille et des fusils
A Man and a Woman
Live for Life
13 jours en France
Love Is a Funny Thing
Life Love Death
Le voyou
Smic Smac Smoc
L'aventure, c'est l'aventure
La bonne année
And Now My Love
Marriage
Cat and Mouse
C'était un rendez-vous
The Good and the Bad
Second Chance
Another Man, Another Chance
Robert et Robert
Us Two
Les Uns et les Autres
Edith and Marcel
Long Live Life
Partir, revenir
Attention bandits!
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté
There Were Days... and Moons
The Beautiful Story
All That... for This?!
Les Misérables
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Chance or Coincidence
One 4 All
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen
Les parisiens
Le courage d'aimer
Crossed Tracks
What War May Bring
D'un film à l'autre
Salaud, on t'aime
Un plus une
Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction
The Best Years of a Life

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Foreign Film – Foreign Language 1949–1972	Bicycle Thieves (1949) Genevieve / The Lady of the Camelias / No Way Back / Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Children, Mother, and the General / Dangerous Curves / Eyes of Children / Ordet / Stella (1955) Before Sundown / A Girl in Black / Roses on the Arm / War and Peace / The White Reindeer (1956) Confessions of Felix Krull / Tizoc / Yellow Crow (1957) Girl and the River / The Road a Year Long / Rosemary (1958) Aren't We Wonderful? / Black Orpheus / The Bridge / Odd Obsession / Wild Strawberries (1959) The Truth / The Virgin Spring (1960) Two Women (1961) Divorce Italian Style (1962) Any Number Can Win (1963) Marriage Italian Style (1964) Juliet of the Spirits (1965) A Man and a Woman (1966) Live for Life (1967) War and Peace (1968) Z (1969) Rider on the Rain (1970) The Policeman (1971) The Emigrants / The New Land (1972)
Foreign Film 1973–1985	The Pedestrian (1973) Scenes from a Marriage (1974) Lies My Father Told Me (1975) Face to Face (1976) A Special Day (1977) Autumn Sonata (1978) La Cage aux Folles (1979) Tess (1980) Chariots of Fire (1981) Gandhi (1982) Fanny and Alexander (1983) A Passage to India (1984) The Official Story (1985)
Foreign Language Film 1986–2020	The Assault (1986) My Life as a Dog (1987) Pelle the Conqueror (1988) Cinema Paradiso (1989) Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Europa Europa (1991) Indochine (1992) Farewell My Concubine (1993) Farinelli (1994) Les Misérables (1995) Kolya (1996) Ma vie en rose (1997) Central Station (1998) All About My Mother (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) No Man's Land (2001) Talk to Her (2002) Osama (2003) The Sea Inside (2004) Paradise Now (2005) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Waltz with Bashir (2008) The White Ribbon (2009) In a Better World (2010) A Separation (2011) Amour (2012) The Great Beauty (2013) Leviathan (2014) Son of Saul (2015) Elle (2016) In the Fade (2017) Roma (2018) Parasite (2019) Minari (2020)
Non-English Language Film 2021–present	Drive My Car (2021) Argentina, 1985 (2022) Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

v t e French submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1948–1960	Monsieur Vincent (1948) The Walls of Malapaga (1950) Forbidden Games (1952) Gervaise (1956) Gates of Paris (1957) My Uncle (1958) Black Orpheus (1959) La Vérité (1960)
1961–1980	Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Sundays and Cybèle (1962) The Fire Within (1963) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Pierrot le Fou (1965) A Man and a Woman (1966) Live for Life (1967) Stolen Kisses (1968) My Night with Maud (1969) Hoa-Binh (1970) Ramparts of Clay (1971) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Day for Night (1973) Lacombe, Lucien (1974) India Song (1975) Cousin, cousine (1976) Madame Rosa (1977) Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) A Simple Story (1979) The Last Metro (1980)
1981–2000	Diva (1981) Coup de Torchon (1982) Entre Nous (1983) So Long, Stooge (1984) Three Men and a Cradle (1985) Betty Blue (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) La Lectrice (1988) Camille Claudel (1989) Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Van Gogh (1991) Indochine (1992) Germinal (1993) Wild Reeds (1994) French Twist (1995) Ridicule (1996) Western (1997) The Dreamlife of Angels (1998) East/West (1999) The Taste of Others (2000)
2001–present	Amélie (2001) 8 Women (2002) Bon Voyage (2003) The Chorus (2004) Joyeux Noël (2005) Avenue Montaigne (2006) Persepolis (2007) The Class (2008) A Prophet (2009) Of Gods and Men (2010) Declaration of War (2011) The Intouchables (2012) Renoir (2013) Saint Laurent (2014) Mustang (2015) Elle (2016) BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017) Memoir of War (2018) Les Misérables (2019) Two of Us (2020) Titane (2021) Saint Omer (2022) The Taste of Things (2023)