Cyrano de Bergerac (1900) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1900 · 2 mins · French

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Directed by

Clément Maurice

Starring

Benoit Constant Coquelin

Recognized as the earliest motion picture to combine color and sound, this short film uniquely preserves the only moving‑image record of Coquelin, the original stage Cyrano from Edmond Rostand’s classic. He performs a scene from his famed role, and the picture is synchronized with a sound‑on‑cylinder recording of Coquelin himself reciting one of Cyrano’s most celebrated speeches, making it a rare historical document.