Every Man for Himself (1980)
September 8, 1980Release Date
Every Man for Himself (1980)
September 8, 1980Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Rivière
Jacques Dutronc
Paul Godard
Nathalie Baye
Denise Rimbaud
Roland Amstutz
Customer in Room 522
Cécile Tanner
Cecile
Anna Baldaccini
Isabelle's Sister
Roger Jendly
Customer of Isabelle's Sister
Fred Personne
First Client
Michel Cassagne
Piaget
Nicole Jacquet
Woman
Paule Muret
Paul's Ex-Wife
Dore de Rosa
Hotel Attendant
Catherine Freiburghaus
Farm Girl
Monique Barscha
Chanteuse d'opéra
Bernard Cazassus
1st Guy
Serge Maillard
Coach
Jean-Bernard Menoud
Cinematographer
Erik Desfosses
Cinema Character
Marie-Luce Felber
Coach
Irène Floersheim
Cafe Waitress
Georgiana Eaton
Girl Who Won't Choose
Nicole Wicht
Isabelle's Friend
Guy Lavoro
Secretary
Claude Champion
Stranger
Michèle Gleizer
Woman in Cafe
Gérald Battiaz
Motorcyclist
Maurice Buffat
3rd Client
Angelo Napoli
Italian Fiancé
Jean-Luc Godard
Director / Producer / Editor
Jean-Claude Carrière
Scenario Writer
Anne-Marie Miéville
Scenario Writer / Editor
Romain Goupil
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 8, 1980
Original NameSauve qui peut (la vie)
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 27m
Filming LocationsVaud · Lausanne · canton Vaud · Geneva, Switzerland
Genres
Wiki.
Every Man for Himself (French: Sauve qui peut (la vie)) is a 1980 drama film directed, co-written and co-produced by Jean-Luc Godard that is set in and was filmed in Switzerland. It stars Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Nathalie Baye, with a score by Gabriel Yared. Nathalie Baye won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. It also was submitted as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Constructed as a musical piece, it has a prologue followed by three movements, each of which focuses on one of the three key characters and their interactions with the others, and ends with a coda. Throughout the film an unnamed piece of music recurs, which is the aria Suicidio! (Suicide!) from the opera La Gioconda by Ponchielli. Serving as leitmotiv for the whole story, it underscores the innate death-wish haunting the central character.