Last Year at Marienbad

L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961)

Timing: 1:35 (95 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

1961-05-25

Country

France, Italy

Production

Argos Films, Cineriz, Silver Films, Cormoran Films, Cinétel, Terra Film

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$0

Revenue

$144 492

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Director

Alain Resnais

Actors

Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville, Héléna Kornel, Françoise Spira, Karin Toche-Mittler, Pierre Barbaud, Wilhelm von Deek
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Producer

Anatole Dauman, Pierre Courau, Raymond Froment

Operator

Sacha Vierny

Composer

Francis Seyrig

Artist

André Piltant, Georges Glon, Jean-Jacques Fabre

Audition

Editing

Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi
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• The film was shot in Paris.
• The film's visuals and characters were used in the music video "To The End" (1994) by the British band "Blur". The video features reshot scenes from Alain Resnais' film, accompanied by absurd English subtitles. Blur vocalist Damon Albarn played the role of X in the music video.
• Despite the fact that in his foreword to the published screenplay, Alain Robbe-Grillet assures us that the city of Marienbad never existed on the map, it does exist. It is the spa town of Mariánské Lázně in the Czech Republic (Mariánské Lázně), its German name being Marienbad.
• The most famous shot in the film is the view of the park that opens up to the characters as they leave the hotel: people stand motionless on a wide path running through the park, casting long shadows, while neither the trees nor the statues cast any shadows. The filming took place on a bright sunny day, and to create this surreal effect, the shadows of the people were simply painted on the ground.
• Filming lasted for ten weeks from September to November 1960. The interiors and gardens of the Schleissheim, Nymphenburg, and Amalienburg palaces in Munich and its surroundings were used for filming. Additional interior scenes were shot in the pavilions of the 'Fotosonore-Marignan-Simon' studio in Paris.
• Filming took place over ten weeks from September to November 1960. The interiors and gardens of the Schleissheim, Nymphenburg, and Amalienburg palaces in Munich and its surroundings were used for filming. Additional interior scenes were shot in the pavilions of the "Photosonore-Marinier-Simon" studio in Paris.