Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French comedy drama film directed by JeanPaul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by JeanClaude Carrire and Rappeneau. It stars Grard Depardieu, Anne Brochet and Vincent Prez. The film was a coproduction between companies in France and Hungary.

Cyrano de Bergerac Grard Depardieu is a Parisian poet and swashbuckler with a large nose of which he is selfconscious, but pretends to be proud. He is madly in love with his friendly cousin they were not actually related as cousins, the beautiful Roxane Anne Brochet however, he does not believe she will requite his love because he considers himself physically unattractive, because of his over large nose. Soon, he finds that Roxane has become infatuated with Christian de Neuvillette Vincent Prez, a dashing new recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne, the military unit in which Cyrano is serving. Christian however, despite his good looks, is tonguetied when speaking with women. Seeing an opportunity to vicariously declare his love for Roxane, he decides to aid Christian, who does not know how to court a woman and gain her love.Cyrano aids Christian, writing love letters and poems describing the very emotions that Cyrano himself feels for Roxane. Roxane begins to appreciate Christian, not only for his good looks but also his apparent eloquence. She eventually falls in love with him and they contract a secret marriage in order to thwart the plans of the Comte de Guiche Jacques Weber, an arrogant nobleman who is himself a frustrated wooer of Roxane. In revenge, De Guiche summons Christian to fight in the war against the Spanish. The war is harsh and brutal the Cadets de Gascogne are starving. Cyrano escapes over enemy lines each morning to deliver a love letter written by Cyrano himself but signed with Christians name, sent to Roxane. ........

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