Fanfan la Tulipe
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.
Special 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
New cover by Zachary Baldus
Special 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
New cover by Zachary Baldus
Cast
- Gérard Philipe
- Fanfan
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Adeline
- Marcel Herrand
- Louis XV
- Olivier Hussenot
- Tranche-Montagne
- Henri Rollan
- Marshall d’Estrées
- Nerio Bernardi
- La Franchise
- Jean Marc Tennberg
- Lebel
- Geneviéve Page
- Madame de Pompadour
- Sylvie Pelayo
- Princess Henriette
Credits
- Director
- Christian-Jaque
- Executive producers
- Francis Cosne
- Executive producers
- Georges Danciger
- Producer
- Alexandre Mnouchkine
- Music
- Maurice Thiriet
- Music
- 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
- Adaptation by
- Henri Jeanson
- Adaptation by
- René Wheeler
- Screenplay
- René Wheeler
- Screenplay
- René Fallet