Harold and Maude

Haifa Classics

  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Hal Ashby
  • USA 1971
  • 91 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

19-year-old Harold, an old soul in boy’s clothes, is obsessed with death and faking his own demise in the most macabre ways. One day, at a funeral, he meets the loveable Maude, a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric, and so begins one of Hollywood’s most unlikely love stories

Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era. Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age, and it features unforgettable performances and a remarkable soundtrack by Cat Stevens.

Filmography: 8 Million Ways to Die (1986), Being There (1979), Coming Home (1978), Shampoo (1975), The Last Detail (1973).

 


  • Director Hal Ashby
  • Production Colin Higgins, Charles B. Mulvehill
  • Script Colin Higgins
  • Cinematography John Alonzo
  • Editing William A. Sawyer, Edward Warschilka
  • Music Cat Stevens
  • Actors Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Chares Tyner, Ellen Geeryner, Ellen Geerga, Robert Webber, Kris Kristofferson
  • Source Park Circus, Glasgow

Harold and Maude