Champagne Charlie - 2-DVD Set

Champagne Charlie - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
291 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Allan Eastman

Written By:
Robert Geoffrion
Jacqueline Lefèvre

Actors:
Hugh Grant ..... Charles Heidsieck
Megan Gallagher ..... Pauline
Megan Follows ..... Louise
Jean-Claude Dauphin ..... Ernest
Georges Descrières ..... Pierre-Henri
Charles W. Gray ..... Moses
Stéphane Audran ..... Thérèse
Alexandra Stewart ..... Cécile
Jean-Paul Muel ..... Clément
Vladek Sheybal ..... Le comte Plasky
Pier Paolo Capponi ..... M. de Ghuilain
Béatrice Agenin ..... Mme de Ghuilain
Catherine Alcover ..... Plantation Wife
Susan Almgren ..... Preston
Lionel Astier
Jean-François Bayonne
Hagan Beggs
Djéloul Beghoura
Fabienne Berthaud
Jacques Bouanich
Yvon Charette
Janelle Cochrane
Richard De Burnchurch
Jean-Claude Deret
Brian Dooley
Michael York
Courtney Cox

Synopsis:

This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).

Charles Heidseick's fight to introduce and popularize French bubbly in the 19th-century US provides the basis of this romantic made-for-TV biography. It was not an easy task as Champagne Charlie met with considerable resistance from American vintners.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 January, 2016.