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| Cyrano de Bergerac | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Written by | Jean-Claude Carrière Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| Based on | Cyrano de Bergerac 1897 play by Edmond Rostand |
| Produced by | René Cleitman Michel Seydoux André Szots |
| Starring | Gérard Depardieu |
| Cinematography | Pierre Lhomme |
| Edited by | Noëlle Boisson |
| Music by | Jean-Claude Petit |
| Distributed by | UGC |
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Running time | 137 minutes |
| Countries | France Hungary |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $15.3 million |
| Box office | $41.3 million[1] |
Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French period 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, Anne Brochet and Vincent Perez. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Hungary.
The film is the first feature film version of Rostand's original play in colour, and the second theatrical film version of the play in the original French. It is also considerably more lavish and more faithful to the original than previous film versions of the play. The film had 4,732,136 admissions in France.[2]
The film and the performance of Gérard Depardieu won numerous awards, notably 10 of the César Awards of 1991.
Subtitles are used for the non-French market; the English-language version uses 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 to collapse completely, creating free verse.
In 2010, Cyrano de Bergerac was ranked number 43 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema".[3]
- ^ JP. "Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)- JPBox-Office". Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ JP (28 March 1990). "Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)". JPBox-Office.
- ^ "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema – 43. Cyrano de Bergerac". Empire.