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Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV’s army to avoid a forced marriage to a local lass and gets himself into close scrapes and tight squeezes with Gina Lollobrigida’s impostor fortune-teller, Adeline, on his way to fighting in the Seven Years’ War. Filled to the brim with dazzling stunts and randy innuendo, Fanfan la Tulipe, which won the best director prize at Cannes and was a smash hit upon its initial release, remains one of France’s all-time most beloved films.
Original Release
03/20/1952
US Release
05/04/1953
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gerard Philipe | Fanfan La Tulipe |
Gina Lollobrigida | Adeline / Adeline La Franchise |
Marcel Herrand | Louis XV |
Olivier Hussenot | Tranche-Montagne |
Henri Rollan | Maréchal d'Estrées / Le maréchal d'Estrée |
Nerio Bernardi | La Franchise |
Jean-Marc Tennberg | Lebel / Monsieur Lebel |
Genevieve Page | La marquise de Pompadour |
Sylvie Pelayo | Henriette de France |
Lolita De Silva | La dame d'honneur |
Directors
Writers
Christian-Jaque, René Wheeler, René Fallet, Henri Jeanson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gerard Philipe | Fanfan La Tulipe |
Gina Lollobrigida | Adeline / Adeline La Franchise |
Marcel Herrand | Louis XV |
Olivier Hussenot | Tranche-Montagne |
Henri Rollan | Maréchal d'Estrées / Le maréchal d'Estrée |
Nerio Bernardi | La Franchise |
Jean-Marc Tennberg | Lebel / Monsieur Lebel |
Genevieve Page | La marquise de Pompadour |
Sylvie Pelayo | Henriette de France |
Lolita De Silva | La dame d'honneur |
Irène Young | Marion |
Georgette Anys | Madame Tranche-Montagne |
Hennery | Guillot |
Lucien Callamand | Le maréchal de Brandebourg |
Gil Delamare | Un soldat |
Jackie Blanchot | Un soldat |
Joé Davray | Un soldat |
Gérard Buhr | Un soldat |
Georges Demas | |
Jean Parédès | Le capitaine de la Houlette |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Francis Cosne | Executive Producer |
Georges Dancigers | Executive Producer |
Alexandre Mnouchkine | Producer |