Le Capitaine Fracasse (1942)
- Directed by
- Abel Gance
- Genre
- adventure
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A nobleman disguises himself as a swashbuckling actor to join a traveling theater troupe. He gets drawn into duels and romantic entanglements in 17th-century France.
swashbucklingromanticadventurousold-fashioneddramaticstatelytheatrical
What happens
Captain Fracasse (French: Le Capitaine Fracasse) is a 1943 French-Italian historical adventure film directed by Abel Gance and starring Fernand Gravey, Assia Noris and Alice Tissot. It is an adaptation of the novel Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier. The scenario and dialogue is by Abel Gance and Claude Vermorel and the music composed by Arthur Honegger. Honegger's score for the film (H. 166 in his catalogue of works) consists of around 50 minutes of music for chorus and large orchestra. On the same subject, there were also a 1929 silent version directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, and a 1961 colour version directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit both with the same title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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