Love at Twenty
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Henri Serre
Jean-pierre Léaud
Marie-france Pisier
François Darbon
Rosy Varte
Patrick Auffay
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
FRANCE: Antoine, a lover of classical music, becomes so enamored of Colette, a student he has seen at concerts, that he moves into a hotel across the street from her home. Eventually he makes her acquaintance and is invited to dinner. Although he is liked by her family, Colette goes out with another boy, leaving Antoine to watch television with her parents. ITALY: Leonardo, lover of both a young girl, Christina, and a wealthy older woman, Valentina, announces that he plans to marry Christina. Valentina flies into a rage and arranges a showdown with her rival. By depicting Leonardo as a hopeless spendthrift, Valentina is able to convince Christina that her future with Leonardo is doomed. JAPAN: Because of class differences, a maladjusted factory worker's love for a wealthy student is hopeless. Filled with despair, he murders his devoted girl friend and then kills the student. When the latter's body is not found, the young killer telephones a newspaper and confesses that he alone knows where her body is. GERMANY: While on a stopover in Munich, a magazine photographer spends a night with a young switchboard operator. When he returns after an extended absence and hears that she is pregnant, he decides to marry her. At their second meeting, he realizes that he loves her and decides to settle down with his new family. POLAND: Sbyssek, a workman, rescues a child from a pit in the zoo. Basia, a young woman who witnessed the incident, invites him to her apartment, where her friends treat him as a hero and then taunt him into a game of blindman's buff. While blindfolded, Sbyssek recalls the time during World War II when he was nearly shot by the Nazis. He becomes completely unnerved, and Basia, perplexed by his actions, leaves with her boyfriend Wladek.
Cast
Henri Serre
Jean-pierre Léaud
Marie-france Pisier
François Darbon
Rosy Varte
Patrick Auffay
Jean-françois Adam
Eleonora Rossi-drago
Cristina Gajoni
Geronimo Meynier
Koji Furuhata
Nami Tamura
Christian Doermer
Barbara Frey
Vera Tschechowa
Werner Finck
Barbara Lass
Zbigniew Cybulski
Wladyslaw Kowalski
Crew
Jean Aurel
Jean De Baroncelli
Claude Beausoleil
Claudine Bouché
Henri Cartier-bresson
Francesco Cinieri
Raoul Coutard
Georges Delerue
Philippe Dussart
Shigeo Hayashida
Shintaro Ishihara
Shintaro Ishihara
Joseph E. Levine
Jerzy Lipman
Jerzy Matuszkiewicz
Mario Montuori
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Pellegrin
Renzo Rossellini
Renzo Rossellini
Pierre Roustang
Yvon Samuel
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Toru Takemitsu
François Truffaut
Andrzej Wajda
Wolf Wirth
Andrzej ^d:zulawski
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
In the segment "Antoine et Colette": on the wall of Antoine's second flat there is a poster for Cannes... les 400 coups (1997) (TV), which also starred Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine Doinel.
Notes
Opened in Paris in June 1962 as L'amour à vingt ans; running time: 118 min. Released in Italy in 1962 as Amore a vent'anni; in West Germany in 1962 as Liebe mit zwanzig; in Poland in 1962 as Milosc dwudziestolatków; in Japan in 1962 as Hatachi no koi. The French episode is also known as "Antoine et Colette." Original running time: 123 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1999
The version Janus Films distributes in the USA does not contain Francois Truffaut's episode due to that episode having different rights ownership than the other segments.
Released in United States 1999 (Shown (Truffaut section only) in New York City (Film Forum) as part of program "Tout Truffaut" April 23 - June 24, 1999.)
