Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "الحب والموت (فيلم)" in Arabic language version.
... he was able to pay homage to some of his favorite films: a battlefield hawker who sells بلينيs to the troops recalls هاربو ماركس in حساء البط (1933), a dueling scene appears modeled on a Bob Hope routine in Monsieur Beaucaire (1946), the climax is a direct nod to Ingmar Bergman's الختم السابع (1957) and the Scythian Suite by Stravinsky is used as background music in one scene, just as it was in Sergei Eisenstein's ألكسندر نيفيسكي (1938). Famous dialogue from the novels of Tolstoy like الحرب والسلم and آنا كارينينا is also parodied along with in-jokes about the poetry of ت. س. إليوت.
... he was able to pay homage to some of his favorite films: a battlefield hawker who sells بلينيs to the troops recalls هاربو ماركس in حساء البط (1933), a dueling scene appears modeled on a Bob Hope routine in Monsieur Beaucaire (1946), the climax is a direct nod to Ingmar Bergman's الختم السابع (1957) and the Scythian Suite by Stravinsky is used as background music in one scene, just as it was in Sergei Eisenstein's ألكسندر نيفيسكي (1938). Famous dialogue from the novels of Tolstoy like الحرب والسلم and آنا كارينينا is also parodied along with in-jokes about the poetry of ت. س. إليوت.