Swann in Love

Swann in Love (1984)

Un amour de Swann

Volker Schlöndorff's Masterly Film

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.

Date of release
1984-02-23
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Volker Schlöndorff

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Swann in Love

Swann in Love is a 1984 Franco-German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It is based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume novel sequence In Search of Lost Time, specifically a self-contained section of the first volume, the title of which typically translates as Swann's Way (1913). It was nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards.

Background

Director Volker Schlöndorff commented later about Proust's Swann in Love as follows:

I must have been sixteen or seventeen, [...] I devoured "Un amour de Swann" in one weekend, lying appropriately under the apple trees in the garden of my boarding school. [...] Proust revealed three worlds to me: the French language, the corresponding society and the unknown regions of love and jealousy. [...] At the time, I, like Charles Swann, had only one desire: to become assimilated in France.

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