The Greatest Love of All Time

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Walerian Borowczyk directs. Walerian Borowczyk behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in No Language.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 249 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Directed by Walerian Borowczyk, shot by Walerian Borowczyk. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 5IMDB entry: tt0452945 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 6Only 16 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography

Walerian Borowczyk

Runtime

10 min · 0h 10m

Status

Released

Original language

FR

IMDB

The Greatest Love of All Time (1977) ↗

Also by

Walerian Borowczyk

• 
  Holy Smoke!

  1963 · ★ 9.0
• 
  Almanac of Addresses of the Ladies of Paris

  1990 · ★ 7.0
• 
  The Phonograph

  1969 · ★ 6.9
• 
  Renaissance

  1967 · ★ 6.8
• 
  Rosalie

  1966 · ★ 6.7
• 
  Joachim's Dictionary

  1966 · ★ 6.6

Production companies

Who made it

• 

  Argos films

  FR

Key crew

• Special EffectsMichel Boschet
• MusicRichard Wagner
• ProducerAnatole Dauman

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical1977-01-01