FEARLESS LITTLE SOLDIER
synopsis
Fanfan is a handsome young peasant. He joins the army to escape a forced marriage and because a gypsy girl predicted he will earn glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the 'gypsy' girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th Century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.
original title: | Fanfan la tulipe |
country: | Italy, France |
year: | 1952 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Christian Jaque |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | FR 20/03/1952, DE 06/1952, NL 11/07/1952, IT 09/08/1952, DK 26/09/1952, ES 03/11/1952, PT 24/11/1952, SE 18/12/1952, AT 04/1953, FI 01/05/1953, HU 10/09/1953, UK 09/1953, DD 29/01/1954, SU 11/01/1955, RU 1956, IE 06/09/1957 |
screenplay: | René Wheeler, René Fallet, Christian Jaque, Henri Jeanson |
cast: | Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand |
cinematography by: | Christian Matras |
film editing: | Jacques Desagneaux |
art director: | Robert Gys |
costumes designer: | Marcel Escoffier |
producer: | Alexandre Mnouchkine |
executive producer: | Francis Cosne, Georges Dancigers |