Alexis Michalik was inspired by Shakespeare in Love (1998) and sought to write a similar film about the creation of a French play, choosing "Cyrano de Bergerac" as he felt it was the biggest "hit" of French theatre and left its mark on its author Edmond Rostand. Michalik couldn't find anyone interested to finance the film however and set it aside, until he saw a stage production of "Shakespeare in Love" and decided to turn his script into a play. The play was massive success, leading film studios to be interested in adapting it for film.
To turn the scene of the death of Cyrano, Alexis Michalik chose to leave the theater for the natural setting of the cloister of a convent.
This film features an extract from "La Sortie des Ouvriers de l'Usine Lumière" (third version, Lumière catalogue N°91)
Golden salamander, public prize at the Sarlat Film Festival--High School Students at the Sarlat Film Festival--Young Jury Prize at the Sarlat Film Festival.
Written in 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac remains one of the most popular plays in French literature. This is how it inspired many adaptations, in the form of opera, ballet, comic book and of course film, the best known being that of Jean-Paul Rappeneau with Gérard Depardieu in the title role. The peculiarity of Edmond is to immerse ourselves behind the scenes of the creation of this classic.-The film is the adaptation of the play of the same name laureate of five Molière in 2017. The opportunity for its director, Alexis Michalik, to go behind the camera. A fair return for those who have long carried this project to make a film and turned at the time to the theater, failing to find a director interested in his work.