Live for Life

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Live for Life
(Vivre Pour Vivre)
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Produced by Georges Dancigers
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Written by Claude Lelouch
Pierre Uytterhoeven
Starring Yves Montand
Candice Bergen
Annie Girardot
Music by Francis Lai
Cinematography Patrice Pouget
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s) 1967
Running time 130 min
Country France / Italy
Language French
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Live for Life (French: Vivre Pour Vivre) is a 1967 French film directed by Claude Lelouch and starred by 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.

Tagline: After "A Man and a Woman", the new love story by Claude Lelouch!.

[edit] Summary

Yves Montand is Robert Colomb, a famous TVnewscaster, 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 as tired of him. Returning from a Vietnamese prison he decides to return also to Catherine, but discovers she has made a new life for herself.

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