Back Залезът на американската империя Bulgarian Le Déclin de l'empire américain Catalan Le Déclin de l'empire américain Welsh Der Untergang des amerikanischen Imperiums German El declive del imperio americano Spanish Le Déclin de l'empire américain Basque Le Déclin de l'empire américain French Le Déclin de l'empire américain Galician Le Déclin de l'empire américain ID Il declino dell'impero americano Italian
| The Decline of the American Empire | |
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 French-language film poster | |
| French | Le Déclin de l'empire américain |
| Directed by | Denys Arcand |
| Written by | Denys Arcand |
| Produced by | Roger Frappier René Malo |
| Starring | Dominique Michel Dorothée Berryman Rémy Girard Pierre Curzi Louise Portal Yves Jacques Geneviève Rioux Daniel Brière Gabriel Arcand |
| Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
| Edited by | Monique Fortier |
| Music by | François Dompierre |
| Distributed by | Malofilms (Canada) |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | French English |
| Budget | $1.8 million[1] |
| Box office | $30 million[2] |
The Decline of the American Empire (French: Le Déclin de l'empire Américain) is a 1986 Canadian sex comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi and Dorothée Berryman. The film follows a group of intellectual friends from the Université de Montréal history department as they engage in a long dialogue about their sexual affairs, touching on issues of adultery, homosexuality, group sex, BDSM and prostitution. A number of characters associate self-indulgence with societal decline.
The film was a box office success in Canada and internationally and received good reviews. It won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, nine Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and was the first Canadian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was followed by two sequels, The Barbarian Invasions in 2003 and Days of Darkness in 2007.
- ^ Loiselle 2008, p. 22.
- ^ Rosenthal, Donna (22 July 1990). "THE PASSION OF DENYS ARCAND". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2016.