Le Colonel Chabert (1994 film)
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Le Colonel Chabert is a 1994 film directed by Yves Angelo
and starring Gérard Depardieu
, Fanny Ardant
, and Fabrice Luchini
. It is based on the novel Le Colonel Chabert
by Honoré de Balzac
.
Yves Angelo
Yves Angelo is a French cinematographer and film director. Angelo has won the César Award for Best Cinematography three times: in 1990 for Nocturne indien, in 1992 for Tous les matins du monde, and in 1994 for Germinal....
and starring Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
, Fanny Ardant
Fanny Ardant
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:...
, and Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor.-Biography:Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement...
. It is based on the novel Le Colonel Chabert
Le Colonel Chabert (novel)
Le Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac . It is included in his series of novels known as La Comédie humaine , which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy...
by Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
.
Awards and nominations
- Cairo Film FestivalCairo International Film FestivalThe Cairo International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Cairo, Egypt. It was established in 1976 and was the first international film festival held in the Arab world...
(Egypt)- Won: Golden Pyramid (Yves Angelo)
- César Awards (France)
- Nominated: Best Actor – Leading Role (Gérard Depardieu)
- Nominated: Best Actor – Supporting Role (Fabrice Luchini)
- Nominated: Best Cinematography (Bernard Lutic)
- Nominated: Best Costume Design (Franca Squarciapino)
- Nominated: Best First Work (Yves Angelo)
- Nominated: Best Production Design (Bernard Vézat)