Synopsis
Théodore Géricault, a young romantic painter, fascinated by horses, meets the famous trainer, Franconi, director of the Olympic Circus. He installs himself in the Circus and shares their life. With Franconi, Géricault learns to free himself from convention and to consider the horse as almost the only subject for his paintings. The seductive approaches of a young woman rider are not enough to distract Géricault from his fierce determination to fathom the mystery of horses and the challenge to paint them. Franconi asks Géricault : "Do you want to know the secret of galloping ? If the painter had been able to reproduce in his paintings the real movements of galloping horses, he would have had almost a century's lead over his contempories ; he would have taken a prodigious leap forward to the discovery of photography... But while the Géricault of "Mazeppa" is searching for movement, Franconi, like Don Quichotte, is fighting against the progress and speed represented by the first telegrap...
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Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : mk2 films
- Co-productions : Société Française de Production (SFP), Ced Productions, Arte France Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producer : Marin Karmitz
- Screenwriters : Bartabas, Claude-Henri Buffard
- Director of Photography : Bernard Zitzermann
- Music Composer : Jean-Pierre Drouet
- Assistant directors : Albane Guilhe, Jean-Luc Roze
- Editors : Joseph Licidé, Maguelone Pouget
- Sound Recordist : Laurent Poirier
- Costume designers : Marie-Laure Schakmundes, Christine Guégan
- Line Producer : Yvon Crenn
- Voice : Didier Sandre
- Assistant Operator : Fabienne Delaleau
- Camera Operator : Guy Famechon
- Production Manager : Éric Hubert
- Press Attachés (film) : Eva Simonet, Laurette Monconduit
- Sound Editor : Jean Gargonne
- Assistant editors : Jenny Frenck, Sophie Henocq, Diane Logan, Maguelone Pouget, Morgane Spacagna
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Vermillard
- Production Designer : Emile Ghigo
- Foley artist : Jean-Pierre Lelong
- Sound mixers : Thierry Lebon, Vincent Arnardi
- Still Photographer : Jérémie Nassif
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
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News & awards
Selections (1)
Awards (1)
Cannes International Film Festival
France, 1993
Prize from the Commission Supérieure Technique : Vincent Arnardi, Jean Gargonne
