Cyrano de Bergerac movie storyline. A dashing officer of the guard and romantic poet, Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane without her knowing. His one curse in his life, he feels, is his large nose and although it may have been a forming influence in his rapier-sharp wit, he believes that Roxane will reject him. He resorts to writing letters to her on behalf of one of his cadets, Christian, who is also in love with Roxane but just doesn’t know how to tell her. She falls for the poetic charm of the letters but believes that they were written by Christian.
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, Anne Brochet and Vincent Pérez. 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 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.
Subtitles are used for the non-French market; the English language version 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.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Pierre Maguelon, Josiane Stoléru, Anatole Delalande
Screenplay by: Jean-Claude Carrière, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Edmond Rostand
Production Design by: Ezio Frigerio, Jacques Rouxel
Cinematography by: Pierre Lhomme
Film Editing by: Noëlle Boisson
Costume Design by: Franca Squarciapino
Set Decoration by: Jacques Rouxel
Music by: Kurt Kuenne, Jean-Claude Petit
Distributed by: UGC
Release Date: March 28, 1990
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