Lady Oscar (film)

Lady Oscar
International release poster
Directed by	Jacques Demy
Screenplay by	Patricia Louisianna Knop
Story by	Jacques Demy Patricia Louisianna Knop
Based on	The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda
Produced by	Mataichiro Yamamoto
Starring	Catriona MacColl Barry Stokes Christine Böhm Jonas Bergström
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Edited by	Paul Davies
Music by	Michel Legrand
Production companies	Kitty Music Corporation Shiseido NTV Toho Ciné Tamaris
Distributed by	Toho (Japan) Ciné Tamaris (France)
Release dates	March 3, 1979 (1979-03-03) (Japan) April 26, 1980 (1980-04-26) (France)
Running time	124 minutes
Countries	Japan France
Language	English
Box office	$220,000[1]

Lady Oscar (Japanese: ベルサイユのばら Hepburn: Berusaiyu no bara, "The Rose of Versailles") is a 1979 English-language romantic period drama film, based on the manga The Rose of Versailles by Riyoko Ikeda. The film was written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music composed by his regular collaborator Michel Legrand. The Japanese-French co-production was produced by Mataichiro Yamamoto for Kitty Films, Nippon TV, Toho, and Ciné Tamaris, and was filmed on location in France.^[2]

Catriona MacColl stars as the eponymous Oscar François de Jarjayes, with Barry Stokes as her lover André Grandier, alongside Jonas Bergström, Christine Böhm, Mark Kingston, Georges Wilson, Sue Lloyd, Martin Potter, and Anouska Hempel. A young Lambert Wilson appears in a minor role.