La Belle Histoire

1992 film

18 March 1992 (1992-03-18) (France)

Running time

210 min.LanguageFrenchBox office$4.3 million^[1]

La Belle Histoire (1992) is a French film directed by Claude Lelouch, featuring Gérard Lanvin and Béatrice Dalle.

Synopsis

A film with an emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past.^[2] These stories are juxtaposed.

Cast

Gérard Lanvin : Jésus-Christ
Béatrice Dalle : Odona
Vincent Lindon : Simon Choulel
Marie-Sophie L. : Marie
Patrick Chesnais : Pierre Lhermitte
Anémone : Madame Desjardins
Isabelle Nanty : Isabelle
Jean Benguigui : Doga
Paul Préboist : The knit teacher
Élie Chouraqui : Pierre's associate
Amina Annabi : Jesus's sister
François Perrot : Marie's uncle
Jean-Michel Dupuis : Professor
Gérard Darmon : The biker
Amidou : The shepherd
Pierre Vernier : The director
Jean-Claude Dreyfus : The inspector
Jacques Gamblin : The young cop
Patrick Edlinger : Himself
Patrice Laffont : Himself
Marie Sara : Herself
Hubert Reeves : Himself
Laurent Weil : Himself^{[citation needed]}

Events

Prior to the film's release, in February 1992 a 70 mm copy of the film was projected onto a 300 m wide screen mounted on the Palais des Congrès in Paris.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "La Belle histoire (1992)". JPBox-Office. 1992-03-25. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
^ ^a ^b bergen-filmklubb.no En vakker historie Archived 2005-09-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
^ allocine.fr La Belle histoire (in French)