end of November 1981 beside Lake Geneva at Nyon, followed by indoor shooting from January 1982 at Billancourt Studios in Paris. For both crew and cast, the director was extremely demanding. Sophie Loucachevsky, who played the production secretary, recalled: In the frost and the snow we waited outside in underclothes and nightdresses while Godard sat alone in a car and wept, clutching a teddy bear. Godard had met the German actress Hanna Schygulla in Hollywood when she was shooting One from the Heart with Francis Ford Coppola and asked her to participate, sending her a three-page synopsis in English titled Passion: Work and Love. For the role of the director, his alter ego, Godard chose the Polish actor Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, well known from his work with Andrzej Wajda. To the French actress Isabelle Huppert he gave her the role of an unglamorous factory worker who is still a virgin, and added to her difficulties by requiring her to stutter. Like most of Godard's work from this period, Passion is shot in colour with a 1.37 aspect ratio. Cinematographer Raoul Coutard, collaborating with Godard for the first time since 1967, won the Technical Grand Prize for cinematography at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Reception The film had 207,294 admissions in France. See also Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage References Bibliography de Baecque, Antoine. Godard - biographie. Paris: Grasset, 2010. Barck, Joanna. Hin zum Film – Zurück zu den Bildern. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2008. Dalle Vacche, Angela. Cinema and Painting- How Art is used in Film. London: Athlone Verlag, 1996. Heeling, Jennifer. Malerei und Film – Intermedialität. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009. Paech, Joachim. Film, Fernsehen, Video und die Künste. Strategien der Intermedialität. Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1994. Paech, Joachim, Passion oder die Einbildungen des Jean-Luc Godard. Frankfurt am Main: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1989. Schönenbach, Richard. Bildende Kunst im Spielfilm. München: Scaneg Verlag, 2000. External links French avant-garde and experimental films 1982 films 1980s French-language films Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard 1980s avant-garde and experimental films American Zoetrope films Swiss avant-garde and experimental films French-language Swiss films 1980s French films it:Passion#Cinema