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Fanfan la Tulipe (1925)

Fanfan la Tulipe poster
Original title
Fanfan-la-Tulipe
Directed by
René Leprince
Genre
swashbuckler film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
6h 50m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man named Fanfan joins the French army and gets into a series of adventures and romantic escapades. The film follows his exploits as a dashing soldier during the reign of King Louis XV.

light-heartedadventurousplayfulswashbucklingromanticfast-pacedclassicsilent-era

What happens

Fanfan la Tulipe is a 1925 French swashbuckler film directed by René Leprince based on a screenplay by Pierre-Gilles Veber and starring Aimé Simon-Girard, Simone Vaudry, and Jacques Guilhène. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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