List of film adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac

There are numerous film adaptations of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac:

• Cyrano de Bergerac (1900 film), a French production starring Benoît-Constant Coquelin
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1925 film), starring Pierre Magnier
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1938 film), a live television adaptation starring James Mason and Leslie Banks
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1946 film), a French production starring Claude Dauphin
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film), starring José Ferrer
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1962 film), starring Christopher Plummer
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1968 film), BBC Play of the Month, starring Eric Porter
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1974 film), starring Peter Donat
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1985 film), starring Derek Jacobi
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film), a French production starring Gérard Depardieu
• Cyrano de Bergerac (2008 film), starring Kevin Kline
• Cyrano (2021 film), an American-British musical drama directed by Joe Wright

Derivative versions

• Love Letters (1945 film), screenplay by Ayn Rand
• Aru kengo no shogai (Life of an Expert Swordsman) (1959), starring Toshirō Mifune, adapted by director Hiroshi Inagaki
• Roxanne (film) (1987), directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Steve Martin
• The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), starring Uma Thurman
• Bigger Than the Sky (2005), in which the protagonist auditions for a local community theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac, and the movie plays out with it as the background theme
• Cyrano Agency (2010), a Korean romance-comedy of a group of actors and stage experts working as professional love makers by writing monologues, staging scenarios and directing their clients
• Megamind (2010), animated film by DreamWorks, inspired by the story and re-imagining the characters in a superhero and supervillain format, with the titular Megamind as Cyrano
• Let It Shine (2012), a Disney Channel Original Movie loosely based on the story.
• Oohalu Gusagusalade (2014), a Telugu adaptation, written and directed by Srinivas Avasarala^[1]
• Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018), a gender reversed Netflix Original based loosely on the story
• #Roxy (2018)
• The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018), a German movie re-imagining the characters as students in modern times.
• The Half of It (2020), another Netflix Original that has Cyrano as a girl, Roxanne as a girl, and Christian as a boy
• Duet (1994) - Indian movie in which two brothers love the same woman. The older brother is a talented saxophone player albeit overweight which results in his reluctance to express his love openly

See also

• Start-Up (South Korean TV series) (2020), loosely based on the story
• Cyrano de Bergerac, the real-life person on whom the play is loosely based

References

1. "Oohalu Gusagusalade Movie Review". The Times of India.