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The Horseman on the Roof (French: Le hussard sur le toit) is a 1995 French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez. Based on the 1951 French novel Le hussard sur le toit by Jean Giono , the film follows the adventures of a young Italian nobleman in France raising money for the Italian revolution ...
- Bernard Bouix
- Jean-Claude Petit
- 20 September 1995 (France)
Oct 6, 1995 · The Horseman on the Roof: Directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. With Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi, François Cluzet. In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- 1995-10-06
The Horseman on the Roof. In 1832, Italian patriot Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez) flees to France to escape Austrian invaders. His intention is to raise money and rally support for the...
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- Jean-Paul Rappeneau
- R
- Olivier Martinez
1,749 ratings128 reviews. Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and which was published in 1951, expanded and solidified his reputation as one ...
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May 24, 1996 · A romantic epic about an Italian patriot and a French noblewoman who fall in love in a cholera-ravaged France, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez. Ebert praises the film's action, adventure, historical detail and cinematography, but criticizes its subtitles and its target audience.
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1995. 2 hr 0 mins. Drama, Action & Adventure. R. Watchlist. Costume drama focusing on the unconsummated love between a nobleman (Olivier Martinez) and the married woman (Juliette Binoche) he's...