TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jean-Paul Rappeneau
AU  - Jean-Paul Rappeneau
AU  - Edmond Rostand
AU  - Gérard Depardieu
AU  - Anne Brochet
AU  - Vincent Perez
TI  - Cyrano de Bergerac
AV  - PN1997 .C973 1990
PY  - 2004///
CY  - United States
PB  - MGM Home Entertainment
N1  - Based on the 1897 play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand.

Item 002486 includes additional special features: Interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, Interview with Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Rappeneau discusses the influence of the 1923 version
N2  - From case cover:
One of France's literary treasures commands the screen with this "exceptionally graceful adaptation" (Los Angeles Times) that received a Best Foreign Film Golden Globe and five Oscar nominations, including Best Actor for Gerard Depardieu! 
Cyrano (Depardieu), a master swordsman and poet, feels he cannot woo his beloved Roxane (Anne Brochet) due to an unfortunate physical flaw: his grotesquely large nose. 
Resigning himself to helping another suitor, the dashing yet tongue-tied Christian (Vincent Perez), Cyrano uses his mastery of words to win Roxane for him. But when Roxane finds that she has fallen for Christian's mind and not for his beauty which of her two suitors will finally possess her heart?

From IMDb:
France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results. Much cut from the play, but dialogue not rewritten
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