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Release Date: 1990

Cast: Jacques Weber, Ludivine Sagnier, Pierre Maguelon, Philippe Volter, Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Vincent Pérez, Anne Brochet, Roland Bertin

Categories: Movies, Costume drama, Romance Film, World cinema

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French comedy drama film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Rappeneau. It stars Gérard Depardieu and Anne Brochet. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Hungary. The film is the first theatrical film version of Rostand's original play in color, and the second theatrical film version of the play in the original French. It is also considerably more lavish than previous film versions of the play, and cuts less from it than, for instance the... MORE

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French comedy drama film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Rappeneau. It stars Gérard Depardieu and Anne Brochet. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Hungary. The film is the first theatrical film version of Rostand's original play in color, and the second theatrical film version of the play in the original French. It is also considerably more lavish than previous film versions of the play, and cuts less from it than, for instance the English-language 1950 film version. The English subtitles use Anthony Burgess's translation of the text, which uses five-beat lines with a varying number of syllables and a regular couplet rhyming scheme, in other words, a sprung rhythm. Although he sustains the five-beat rhythm through most of the play, Burgess sometimes allows this structure to break deliberately: in Act V, he allows it collapse completely, creating a free verse. It was ranked #43 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. Cyrano de Bergerac is a Parisian poet and swashbuckler with a large nose of which he is LESS