The Duellists (1977)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Ridley Scott

Escritores:

Joseph Conrad (story)
Gerald Vaughan-Hughes (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

31 agosto 1977 (France)

Género:

Acción | Guerra | Drama

Frase comercial:

Fencing is a science. Loving is a passion. Duelling is an obsession.

Plot:

Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long emnity...

Plot Keywords:

Military Officer | France | 1810s | Duel | 19th Century

Premios:

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

definitely worth watching

Reparto

Keith Carradine	...	D'Hubert
Harvey Keitel	...	Feraud
Albert Finney	...	Fouche
Edward Fox	...	Colonel
Cristina Raines	...	Adele
Robert Stephens	...	Gen. Treillard
Tom Conti	...	Dr. Jacquin
John McEnery	...	Chevalier
Diana Quick	...	Laura
Alun Armstrong	...	Lacourbe
Maurice Colbourne	...	Second
Gay Hamilton	...	Maid
Meg Wynn Owen	...	Leonie
Jenny Runacre	...	Mme. de Lionne
Alan Webb	...	Chevalier

También conocida como:

Duel (UK) (working title)
Los duelistas (Spain) [es]

Duración:

100 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Ruso

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Iceland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Aquitaine, France

Compañía:

Enigma Productions

Trivialidades:

In the Notes for the liner of the soundtrack album, the writer states that both director Ridley Scott and producer David Putnam "were of the same mind about (composer Howard Blake's) score, and requested Blake to write a huge, almost Wagnerian closing composition for the film - stating they would adjust the length of the end credits to whatever Blake wrote."

Citas:

[first lines]
Narrator: The duellist demands satisfaction. Honour, for him, is an appetite. This story is about an eccentric kind of hunger. It is a true story and begins in the year that Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' (2002) (V)

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definitely worth watching

Seems this film has left most viewers with only positive comments to make (quite rare actually). I agree with most of them.

This is a very believable film and is beautiful to watch in parts thanks to Scott's eye for design and natural beauty, esepecially regarding the use of light.

I was mesmerised to know how it was all going to end. I was so sure it was going to end tragically but then was surprised and elevated by the ending that showed the richness & depth of the human experience. I believe there's some meaning for us all in this movie. And I got to hear about this movie by accident!

An amazing quality of a film overall when you read about it's history, which was almost not made!

8/10