Silla and Perez were married in 1998.Įdmond Rostand's original play identifies one character as "a Musketeer" who compliments Cyrano after his duel with Valvert. In 1992, Depardieu and Silla had a daughter, whom they named Roxanne. In real life, they would both be involved with the same woman, actress Karine Silla. In the film, Gérard Depardieu and Vincent Perez play rivals for Roxane's love. More than a thousand weapons were required, along with forty studio sets and outdoor locations in France and Hungary, including cathedrals and abbeys.
About 1,000 of those costumes were designed especially for the film. The story has also been transposed to a modern American setting in Roxanne (1987), in which Steve Martin earned an Oscar® nomination as a big-nosed, small-town fire chief who woos his Roxanne (Daryl Hannah) on behalf of one of his young firefighters (Rick Rossovich).Ĭyrano de Bergerac required 2,000 actors and extras and 2,000 costumes. Toshiro Mifune plays a character based on Cyrano, set in 17th century Japan, in Aru kengo no shogai/Life of an Expert Swordsman (1959). The most famous film version of the story prior to this was made in 1950 and earned Jose Ferrer a Best Actor Academy Award. Burgess composed the English subtitles in rhymed couplets to mirror the dialogue of Rostand's original play. They were written by acclaimed British novelist, critic, poet, playwright, and linguist Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers. Other honored aspects of Cyrano de Bergerac include Césars for Best Film, Cinematography, Costume, Direction, Editing, Music, Production Design, Sound, and Supporting Actor Jacques Weber BAFTA awards for Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup, and Score a Golden Globe and National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film an Academy Award for Costume Design (along with nominations for Makeup, Art Direction, and Foreign Language Film), and dozens of other awards and nominations from film societies, critics organizations, and festivals throughout the world.Įven the subtitles for this 1990 version carry distinction. He also received an Academy Award nomination. The role earned him Best Actor awards from the London Film Critics Circle, the Cannes Film Festival, and the César (the national film awards of France), as well as nominations from BAFTA (the British Academy Award) and the European Film Awards. Playing Cyrano has certainly been one of the crowning achievements of his long career.
A statue in Cyrano's honor stands in the town of Bergerac, Dordogne.ĭepardieu relished his role, and aside from the prosthetic nose, also enjoyed his look in this picture enough to keep the long hair and mustache for some time after. Both men, however, fought at the siege of Arras in 1640, a battle of the Thirty Years War between France and Spain, just as in the play. The stories add much other fiction as well he did have a cousin who married a soldier friend of his, but her name was Catherine, and he likely did not write love letters to her on his friend's behalf. Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655) was a French dramatist and duelist whose portraits suggest that he did have a big nose, though not nearly as large as depicted in the fictional works about him. There actually was a historical figure on whom Rostand based his play. Cyrano's beautiful skill with words and the deep feelings he harbors for the young woman easily win her heart, although she believes the sentiments are coming from Christian. Because of that incredible appendage, however, he is sure he can never profess his love for his cousin Roxane, so he agrees to help his handsome but dim-witted subordinate, Christian, woo her by writing her love letters. An expert swordsman, he also has a rapier wit, devastating anyone who dares to ridicule his huge nose. But many critics and audiences place Jean-Paul Rappeneau's 1990 version at the top of that list, with Gérard Depardieu's Cyrano arguably the finest of all.Ĭyrano is a dashing officer of the guard in mid-17th century France. The spirit of the drama is so indelible, it has been filmed countless times for film and television in many countries. An immediate hit upon its first Paris production, the story has lived on as the ultimate romance, cherished equally for the affection two men hold for the woman they both love - one secretly - and for the great sacrifice one friend makes for another. Edmond Rostand first published his play Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897.
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