A Walk with Love and Death
A Walk with Love and Death is a 1969 American historical-drama film directed by John Huston and starring Anjelica Huston and Assi Dayan.
Plot
The story is based on the 1961 novel by Hans Koningsberger, set at the time of the 1358 uprising of the peasants of northern France known as the Jacquerie. Heron of Fois (Assi Dayan), a student from Paris, crosses territory devastated by the upheaval and the ferocious reprisals of the nobility. He meets with Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the aristocratic daughter of a royal official killed by the peasants, and they attempt to reach Calais. In the novel, Heron's intended final destination is Oxford University while in the film "the sea" less specifically comes to represent an abstract freedom. While differing in their views of the Jacquerie—Heron sympathises with the exploited peasantry, and Claudia sees their rising as mindless savagery—the young couple become lovers. In the end, they fail to escape the chaotic violence around them but await death "strangely happy - we had stopped running from them and we had our hour".
More details
| author | Dale Wasserman |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | France |
| director | John Huston |
| editor | Russell Lloyd |
| genre | drama historical |
| keywords | calais end hans koning jacquerie kill northern france oxford university run uprise young couple |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue |
| producer | Carter DeHaven |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | epic romantic drama war |