More (1969)

Director:

Barbet Schroeder

Writers:

Eugène Archer (dialogue)
Mimsy Farmer (dialogue: collaboration on final version)
(more)

Release Date:

21 October 1969 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Crime

Tagline:

When two people love, one always loves more.

Plot:

The making of a heroin addict. Stefan, fresh from college, hitches from Germany to Paris, where he does...

Plot Keywords:

Friend | German | Breaking And Entering | Heroin Addict | Money

Cast

Mimsy Farmer	...	Estelle Miller
Klaus Grünberg	...	Stefan Brückner
Heinz Engelmann	...	Dr. Ernesto Wolf
Michel Chanderli	...	Charlie
Henry Wolf	...	Henry
Louise Wink	...	Cathy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Georges Montant	...	Seller (uncredited)

Directed by
Barbet Schroeder

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Eugène Archer		dialogue (as Eugene Archer)
Mimsy Farmer		dialogue: collaboration on final version
Paul Gardner		dialogue: collaboration on final version
Paul Gégauff		screenplay and dialogue (as Paul Gegauff)
Barbet Schroeder		screenplay and dialogue
Barbet Schroeder		story

Produced by
Pierre Cottrell	....	associate producer
Charles Lachman	....	executive producer (as Charles R. Lachman)
David Lewis	....	executive producer (as David L. Lewis)
Barbet Schroeder	....	producer

Original Music by
Pink Floyd		(as The Pink Floyd)
David Gilmour		(as Pink Floyd)
Nick Mason		(as The Pink Floyd)
Roger Waters		(as The Pink Floyd)
Richard Wright		(as Pink Floyd)

Cinematography by
Néstor Almendros

Film Editing by
Denise de Casabianca
Rita Roland

Art Direction by
Néstor Almendros		(as Nestor Almendros)
Fran Lewis

Sound Department
Jack Jullian	....	sound
Robert Pouret	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Bernard	....	electrician
Olivier Bogard	....	assistant camera
Lester Waldman	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Monique Giraudy	....	assistant editor
Madeleine Grimberg	....	second assistant editor

Other crew
Alfred de Graff	....	second assistant to producer (as Alfred de Graaff)
Carlos Durán	....	assistant to producer (as Carlos Duran)
Janine Evrad	....	script (as Janine Euvrard)
Monique Giraudy	....	script
Fred Junck	....	second assistant to producer

Production Companies

• Jet Films
• Les Films du Losange

Distributors

• Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Cinema V (1969) (USA) (theatrical) (English-track)
• Guerilla Films (????) (UK) (theatrical)
• Image Entertainment (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Video Beat (????) (USA) (DVD)
• Video Beat (????) (USA) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Gier nach Lust (West Germany) (new title)
More - Mehr, immer mehr (West Germany)

Runtime:

West Germany:117 min

Country:

West Germany | France | Luxembourg

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (cut) | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain

Company:

Jet Films

Trivia:

The soundtrack was composed by Pink Floyd. The band was given £600 and complete ownership to all of the material for their work, and some of the songs on the album were still in their live set list by 1971. The band also scored the music for another Barbet Schroeder film, La vallée (1972) in 1972.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: David Gilmour's last name is misspelled "Gilmore" in the opening credits.

Quotes:

Stefan Brückner: Well, I should go.
Estelle Miller: No, stay.
Stefan Brückner: Why?
Estelle Miller: I like to hear you talk.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)

Days of dope and roses

Kind of a low-key "Days of wine and roses," this is hardly a standard 1960's drug film. Director Schroeder (whom one can deduce is represented by Charlie the good-natured street hustler) states initially it's about a friend who died of drug overdose, so we know it's going to be a story of psychic corruption rather than an exploration of the ideals of Timothy Leary. It might seem that Schroeder is really glamorizing drugs simply by example, as well as by showing the sex life of the characters, and by employing a real psychedelic band for the soundtrack. However, Schroeder doesn't show subjective scenes of drug use; the characters trip out in their own world, usually detached from another, and the audience watches like the only sober person at a frat party. Their sex life soon peters out as drugs take over their lives. Using Pink Floyd was probably to attract unwitting youth and drug-users to see (without being preached to) how drugs can kill.

What probably does seem 'standard 1960s' to viewers today is the flat, realistic style of the film which doesn't grab the viewer (unlike the more recent "Sid and Nancy" or "Trainspotting") but was typical of independent and European films of that time. However it's still watchable, and a must for early-Pink Floyd (or "The Pink Floyd", as they're billed in the credits) fans.