Cyrano de Bergerac
Cirano di Bergerac
Italy
1925
113 Min
Color
1.33:1
French
Synopsis
Cyrano de Bergerac is ugly but full of spirit: exceedingly eloquent, the courageous musketeer is in fact afflicted with a deformed nose that prevents him from declaring his love for Roxane, the cousin that he’s loved forever. He feels totally dispossessed when the beauty reveals to him that she loves Christian. The young lover is beautiful but not very eloquent. So with the help of Cyrano, he adapts the poet’s words of love to win Roxane’s heart.
Adapted for cinema from 1900, barely three years after the play was created, Cyrano de Bergerac was a huge success abroad as this Italian version filmed in colour by Augusto Genina in 1923 proves. —Europa Film Treasures
Director
Augusto Genina
Augusto Genina (January 28, 1892 – September 18, 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.
Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the “Film d’Arte Italiana”, that produces his first film “La moglie di sua eccellenza”. In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film Prix de beauté. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.
He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini’s cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by Lo squadrone bianco and in 1940 by The Siege of the Alcazar, both Fascist propaganda films.
In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real tragic accident that Giuseppe De Santis made one year before in Rome 11 O’Clock (Roma ore 11). —Wikipedia read more
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