The Voyage of Captain Fracassa ( Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa ) ( Le voyage de capitaine Fracasse )

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa
Alternate Title: Le voyage de capitaine Fracasse
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
127 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Ettore Scola

Written By:
Théophile Gautier
Vincenzo Cerami

Actors:
Vincent Perez ..... Baron of Sigognac
Emmanuelle Beart ..... Isabella
Massimo Troisi ..... Pulcinella
Ornella Muti ..... Serafina
Lauretta Masiero ..... Lady Leonarde
Toni Ucci ..... The tyrant
Massimo Wertmüller ..... Leandre
Jean-François Perrier ..... Matamore
Tosca D'Aquino ..... Zerbina
Giuseppe Cederna ..... Agostino
Mariangela Giordano ..... Bruyeres
Claudio Amendola ..... Pietro, Sigognac's servant
Marco Messeri ..... Vallombrosa
Ciccio Ingrassia
Remo Girone

Synopsis:

Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac (Vincent Perez), who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina (Ornella Muti). He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella (Emmanuelle Béart). When the company plays before a group of noblemen, the three women make yet more conquests, a few of them unwelcome, and a series of competitions and duels for the hearts of the lovely ladies follows, before everyone settles down with the "right" person.

In the Eighteenth Century, the 'Traveling Company of Scenic Arts' composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling to Paris in bad weather. They see a castle and ask the servant Pietro if they can spend the night. They soon learn that the destroyed castle belongs to the ruined nobleman Jean Luc Henry Camille, the Baron of Sigognac. Pietro asks the company to take Sigognac with them to Paris as King Luis XIII's father was saved by the baron's father, Henrique de Navarra, and Luis XIII would certainly reward Sigognac in gratitude. He also secretly gives one hundred gold coins to Pulcinella to serve Sigognac.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 22 December, 2011.

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