---
title: 'Last Embrace (1979)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jonathan Demme'
released: '1979-05-04'
runtime_minutes: 102
genres:
  - 'Mystery'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/last-embrace-1979'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079437/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Last Embrace (1979)

1979 · 102 min · Mystery · United States


## Synopsis

Last Embrace is a 1979 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, John Glover, Sam Levene, Charles Napier and Christopher Walken. Loosely based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it tells the story of a woman who takes the role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and kills the descendants of the Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmother.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jonathan Demme](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-demme)
- **Screenplay:** [David Shaber](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-shaber)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Miklós Rózsa](https://cinepixo.com/people/miklos-rozsa)
- **Producer:** [Michael Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-taylor)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tak Fujimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/tak-fujimoto)
- **Editor:** [Barry Malkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-malkin)

## Cast

- [Jacqueline Brookes](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacqueline-brookes)
- [Janet Margolin](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-margolin)
- [Christopher Walken](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-walken)
- [Marcia Rodd](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcia-rodd)
- [Mandy Patinkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mandy-patinkin)
- [Roy Scheider](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-scheider)
- [Charles Napier](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-napier)
- [Jonathan Demme](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-demme)
- [John Glover](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-glover)
- [Joe Spinell](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-spinell)
- [David Margulies](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-margulies)
- [Jim McBride](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-mcbride)
- [Max Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-wright)
- [Sam Levene](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-levene)

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