The Duellists - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Duellists"
The Duellists (1977)
Timing:
1:40 (100 min)
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Actors and characters
Gay Hamilton
Character Maid
Meg Wynn Owen
Character Léonie
Neville Jason
Character Hilaire
Timothy Penrose
Character Singer
Anthony Douse
Character Surgeon
Richard Graydon
Character Cossack / Hussar
Tim Hardy
Character Officer
William Hobbs
Character Swordsman
Michael Irving
Character Officer
Tony Mathews
Character Gen. Treillard's Aide-de-Camp
George Oliver
Character Wedding Guest (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- After scouting various areas in southwestern France, Ridley Scott chose Sarlat, a Périgord town favored by many producers, and its surroundings (Commarque Castle) as locations for his film.
- Due to limited financial resources, the film was shot entirely on location in France, England, and Scotland. No sets were built. All the buildings shown in the film already existed.
- According to Ridley Scott, Paramount Pictures provided him with a list of four actors from whom he was to choose two for the lead roles (this was a prerequisite for project funding). Scott chose Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, and spent the next several months persuading them to agree to star in these roles.
- The rapiers were connected to batteries (this was necessary for them to spark), and Harvey Keitel later claimed that he was repeatedly electrocuted.
- According to Ridley Scott, Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel insisted on using real, not prop, rapiers in the fight and duel scenes. In the first part of the film, the French hussars use light cavalry sabers of the 1798 model.
- The filmmakers’ financial resources were so limited that one of the carriages had its rear painted red and the front black, so that it could be mistaken for another carriage.
- After the duel, Harvey Keitel throws away his pistol, so Ridley Scott had to place a mattress on the ground there and position a special person (off-camera) to immediately pick up the pistol. The dueling pistols were the most expensive items among all the props; they were genuine antiques worth $17,000 each.
- The prototypes for the main characters were two historical figures – Pierre Dupont de l'Étan (Armand) and François Fourier Sarloveze (Gabriel). Their first duel took place in 1794, and over the following 19 years, around 30 more encounters occurred. They fought with swords, and Dupont made every effort to avoid pistols, as it was claimed that Fourier never missed. Contrary to what is shown in the film, Dupont and Fourier treated each other warmly between duels, and even had lunch together after them. After 19 years, Dupont decided it was time to end the duels and agreed to a pistol duel for the first time. As in the film, the duelists tracked each other in the forest, each carrying two pistols and having the right to shoot when ready. Dupont tricked Fourier into wasting his bullets on two dummies he had created from readily available materials. After that, he approached Fourier with loaded pistols and declared that if he challenged him to a duel again, they would shoot, and Dupont would shoot first, from a distance of one meter. Fourier permanently withdrew the challenge.
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