Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand (Derek Jacobi 1985 TV) 5/17

Derek Jacobi... Cyrano de Bergerac
Pete Postlethwaite... Ragueneau
Jennie Goossens... Roxane's Duenna
Sinéad Cusack... Roxane
Ken Bones... Carbon de Castel Jaloux

Writers:
Edmond Rostand (play)
Anthony Burgess (translation)

Directed by Terry Hands
Original Music by Nigel Hess
Film Editing by David Martin
Production Design by Ralph Koltai
Costume Design by Alexander Reid

Alexander Guy Holborn Spiers writes:

It is evident that Rostand belongs to this broad current both by his protest against materialism and disillusionment and by his praise and observance of the lyric life. But we should be doing him an injustice if we stopped here. What is not so obvious, but equally true and perhaps more important if we would estimate his writings correctly, is that there is harmony between this protest and this praise, and the manner in which Rostand composed his dramas.

Rostand belongs to the advance guard of his generation not only because of the nature of his intentions and his aspirations, but also because these aspirations were sufficiently potent to give birth to that which one may, without too much exaggeration, call a new technic. No writer for the stage of anything like his finish and popularity has succeeded in producing plays composed so exclusively of lyric idealism.

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[QueenBoadicea]

0:44 I love that look he gives at the rhyme of "silk", "milk" and "wilk". Wilk?!?