List of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac
There are several film adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac:
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1900 film), a French production starring Benoît-Constant Coquelin
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1925 film), starring Pierre Magnier
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1938 film), a live television adaptation starring James Mason and Leslie Banks
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1946 film), a French production starring Claude Dauphin
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film), starring José Ferrer
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1962 film), starring Christopher Plummer
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1972 film), starring Peter Donat
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1985 film), starring Derek Jacobi
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film), a French production starring Gérard Depardieu
- Cyrano de Bergerac (2008 film), starring Kevin Kline
Derivative versions
- 1959 Aru kengo no shogai (Life of an Expert Swordsman), starring Toshirō Mifune, adapted by director Hiroshi Inagaki
- 1970 When Love Walks In, an episode of UK sitcom Nearest and Dearest, sees main character Eli Pledge prompt Leonard Longbottom from behind a curtain in proposing to Nellie Pledge
- 1987 Wimps (film) a teen romantic comedy
- 1987 Roxanne (film), directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin
- 2010 Cyrano Agency, 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.
- 1996 The Truth About Cats & Dogs, starring Uma Thurman
- 2010 Megamind, 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.
- 2012 Let It Shine, a Disney Channel Original Movie loosely based on the story.
- 2014 Oohalu Gusagusalade, a Telugu adaptation, written and directed by Srinivas Avasarala[1]
- 2018 Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, a gender reversed Netflix Original based loosely on the story.
- 2018 #Roxy
- 2018 The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, a German movie re-imagining the characters as students in modern times.
- 2020 The Half of It, another Netflix Original that has Cyrano as a girl, Roxanne as a girl, and Christian as a boy
- 2020 Start-Up (South Korean TV series) loosely based on the story
See also
- Cyrano de Bergerac, the real-life person on whom the play is loosely based
- Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
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