![]() ![]() The film is considered as one of the most faithful and lavish Period Piece adaptations of the play to the big screen to this day, and won a number of awards including the César for Best Film and Best Actor (for Depardieu), and the Oscar for Best Costume Design. Seeing an opportunity to vicariously declare his love for Roxane, Cyrano decides to help Christian. Christian however, despite his good looks, is tongue-tied and clueless when speaking with women, terribly lacking Cyrano's talent when it comes to improvise poetry. Soon, he finds out that Roxane has become infatuated with Christian de Neuvillette, a dashing new recruit to the Cadets de Gascogne (the military unit in which Cyrano is serving). However, he does not believe she will requite his love because he considers himself physically unattractive, due to his overly large nose. He is madly in love with his cousin, the beautiful Roxane. In 17th century Paris, Cyrano de Bergerac is an improvisatory poet and swordsman with a large nose of which he is self-conscious, but pretends to be proud. ![]() It stars Gérard Depardieu as Cyrano, Vincent Perez as Christian de Neuvillette, Anne Brochet as Roxane and Jacques Weber as Count Antoine de Guiche. ![]() The 1990 film adaptation of Edmond Rostand's stage play Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. ![]()
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