Song of Love (1972)
Un chant d’amour
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- Date of release
- 1972-12-11
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (115)
- Runtime
- 26m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Director
- Jean Genet
Casting
- Bravo — Older Prisoner (uncredited)
- Jean Genet — Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited)
- Java — Nude Prisoner / Hand Swinging the Blossom (uncredited)
- Coco Le Martiniquais — Black Prisoner (uncredited)
- André Reybaz — Guard (uncredited)
- Lucien Sénémaud — Younger Prisoner (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Un chant d'amour is French writer Jean Genet's only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was long banned. The film first screened publicly in 1954 with the sexually explicit scenes expurgated.
Production
Un chant d'amour was French writer Jean Genet's only film, which he directed. Jean Cocteau was believed to be the film's cinematographer.
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