Synopsis
Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV’s army to avoid a forced marriage to a local lass and gets himself into close scrapes and tight squeezes with Gina Lollobrigida’s impostor fortune-teller, Adeline, on his way to fighting in the Seven Years’ War. Filled to the brim with dazzling stunts and randy innuendo, Fanfan la Tulipe, which won the best director prize at Cannes and was a smash hit upon its initial release, remains one of France’s all-time most beloved films.
Cast
| Fanfan | Gérard Philipe |
| Adeline | Gina Lollobrigida |
| Louis XV | Marcel Herrand |
| Tranche-Montagne | Olivier Hussenot |
| Marshall d’Estrées | Henri Rollan |
| La Franchise | Nerio Bernardi |
| Lebel | Jean Marc Tennberg |
| Madame de Pompadour | Geneviéve Page |
| Princess Henriette | Sylvie Pelayo |
Credits
| Director | Christian-Jaque |
| Executive producers | Francis Cosne and Georges Danciger |
| Producer | Alexandre Mnouchkine |
| Music | Maurice Thiriet and Georges van Parys |
| Assistant director | Raymond Villette |
| Editing | Jacques Desagneause |
| Costumes | Marcel Escoffier |
| Sets | Robert Gys |
| Cinematography | Christian Matras |
| Dialogue | Henri Jeanson |
| Adaptation by | Christian-Jaque, Henri Jeanson and René Wheeler |
| Screenplay | René Wheeler and René Fallet |
Disc Features
- Restored digital transfer
- New video program about actor Gérard Philipe
- A clip from the colorized version of the film
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Kenneth Turan
From the Current
Fanfan la Tulipe: En Garde!
by Nov 2, 2008To see the gorgeous Fanfan la Tulipe is to go back in time twice over: to the film’s eighteenth-century French setting and to the international cinema . . .
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