Shadows and Fog

Shadows and Fog (1991)

Timing: 1:25 (85 min)

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Release date

1991-12-05

Country

United States

Production

Orion Pictures

Genre

Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Budget

$14 000 000

Revenue

$2 735 731

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Director

Woody Allen

Actors

Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne, John Malkovich, Julie Kavner, Madonna, Kenneth Mars
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Scenario

Woody Allen

Producer

Robert Greenhut, Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins

Operator

Carlo Di Palma

Composer

Artist

W. Steven Graham, Robert Perdziola, Peter Eastman

Audition

Juliet Taylor

Editing

Susan E. Morse
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• The film is based on a one-act comedic play called "Death," published in Woody Allen's collection of stories, "Without Feathers" (1972). Both the play and the film are stylizations of the works of Franz Kafka, and in particular his novel "The Trial".
• The film was shot at the 8,000 square meter Kaufman-Astoria Studios, which is the largest studio built in New York.
• The large sets were quite expensive, so most of them were used multiple times, disguised in scenes with thick fog.
• With a budget of $19 million at the time, it was Woody Allen's most expensive film.
• Although Fred Gwynne's name is listed on the poster, he only speaks one line in the film. The same is true of Kate Nelligan, who appears in only one scene, shouting from an upstairs window, but is also credited on the poster.
• This is the last film by Woody Allen released by the now-defunct Orion Pictures studio, most of whose founders were, in one way or another, connected to Woody Allen's films since his collaboration with United Artists.
• Jodie Foster, who plays a prostitute, also played a prostitute in *Taxi Driver* (1976). Victor Argo also appeared in both films and played similar characters.
• Considering the cost of building the sets, which was to make this project more expensive than the usual films of director and screenwriter Woody Allen, the film company "Orion Pictures" demanded that Allen himself appear on screen.
• According to Donald Pleasence, no one from the creative team saw the film's script, and Woody Allen only gave him the pages containing his character. When Pleasence asked Allen questions like “Who is Schultz?”, he invariably replied that it didn’t matter and there was no need to know.
• The film is based on a one-act comedy play called “Death,” published in Woody Allen’s collection of stories, “Without Feathers” (1972). Both the play and the film are a stylization of the works of Franz Kafka, and in particular his novel “The Trial”.