List of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac

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There are numerous film adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac:

Derivative versions[]

  • Aru kengo no shogai (Life of an Expert Swordsman) (1959), starring Toshirō Mifune, adapted by director Hiroshi Inagaki
  • Roxanne (film) (1987), directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin
  • The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), starring Uma Thurman
  • Bigger Than the Sky (2005), in which the protagonist auditions for a local community theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the movie plays out with it as the background theme
  • Cyrano Agency (2010), a Korean romance-comedy of a group of actors and stage experts working as professional love makers by writing monologues, staging scenarios and directing their clients
  • Megamind (2010), animated film by DreamWorks, inspired by the story and re-imagining the characters in a superhero and supervillain format, with the titular Megamind as Cyrano
  • Let It Shine (2012), a Disney Channel Original Movie loosely based on the story.
  • Oohalu Gusagusalade (2014), a Telugu adaptation, written and directed by Srinivas Avasarala[1]
  • Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), a gender reversed Netflix Original based loosely on the story
  • #Roxy (2018)
  • The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018), a German movie re-imagining the characters as students in modern times.
  • The Half of It (2020), another Netflix Original that has Cyrano as a girl, Roxanne as a girl, and Christian as a boy
  • Duet (1994) - Indian movie in which two brothers love the same woman. The older brother is a talented saxophone player albeit overweight which results in his reluctance to express his love openly

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Oohalu Gusagusalade Movie Review". The Times of India.
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