“If you don’t come to Lagardere, Lagardere will come to you!” These are the words in the form of an oath that Lagardere has sworn to Count Gonzaga, who has conspired against his friend, the illustrious Duke of Nevers, to seize the fortune of his rich cousin. It will take Chevalier de Lagardere sixteen years to avenge his friend, triumph over morality, save his dignity and find love.
It’s the pitch for Le Hunchback, a wonderfully infamous movie adapted from Paul Feval’s serialized novel that hit theaters in 1997. Daniel Ott’s opportunity to brilliantly follow in the footsteps of Jean Marais, who played the character of Lagardere in Andre Hunnebel’s famous version dating back to 1960.
curly Allows director Philippe de Broca to return to the swashbuckling film genre a quarter of a century after Cartouche in one of his collaborations with Jean-Paul Belmondo. And the result is a real success: a used version Daniel O’Teil It is a small classic of action and adventure cinema. A big performance full of enthusiasm, within which we applaud both the quality of the historical reconstruction and its high-class casting, within which Daniel O’TeilWe find specifically Fabrice Luchini, Philippe Noiret, Marie Gillain and Vincent Perez, that’s it!
4 months of filming, a budget of 140 million francs, 9 César nominations and a lot of viewers…
Filmed over four months between Île-de-France and the city of Le Mans. curlyWith a budget of 140 million francs, one of the biggest productions of the time, it won over critics and audiences alike. The feature film, which has been nominated nine times for the César statue, which rewards the quality of its costumes, attracted more than 1.6 million viewers in French cinemas. What if this Sunday evening was an adventure in your living room?
Tonight on Arte at 9 o’clock.
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