--- title: 'The Duellists (1977)' type: 'film' director: 'Ridley Scott' released: '1977-05-22' runtime_minutes: 100 certification: 'PG' genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' - 'History' countries: - 'Australia' - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-duellists-1977' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Duellists (1977) 1977 · PG · 100 min · Drama, War, History · Australia, United Kingdom ## Synopsis The Duellists is a 1977 British historical drama film which is the directorial debut of Ridley Scott. Set in France during the Napoleonic Wars, the film focuses on a series of duels between two rival officers, the obsessive Bonapartist Gabriel Feraud and royalist Armand d'Hubert, that spans nearly 20 years and reflects the political tumult of early 19th-century France. The film is based on Joseph Conrad's 1908 short story "The Duel". ## Credits - **Director:** [Ridley Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/ridley-scott) - **Screenplay:** [Gerald Vaughan-Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerald-vaughan-hughes) - **Original Music Composer:** [Howard Blake](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-blake) - **Producer:** [David Puttnam](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-puttnam) - **Director of Photography:** [Frank Tidy](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-tidy) ## Cast - [Cristina Raines](https://cinepixo.com/people/cristina-raines) as Adele - [Dave Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/dave-hill) as Cuirassier - [Tony Matthews](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-matthews) as Treillard's aide-de-camp - [Arthur Dignam](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-dignam) as d'Hubert's one-eyed second - [Harvey Keitel](https://cinepixo.com/people/harvey-keitel) as Gabriel Feraud - [Alun Armstrong](https://cinepixo.com/people/alun-armstrong) as Lieutenant Lecourbe - [Liz Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/liz-smith) as the fortune teller - [Meg Wynn Owen](https://cinepixo.com/people/meg-wynn-owen) as Leonie - [Pete Postlethwaite](https://cinepixo.com/people/pete-postlethwaite) as Treillard's orderly - [Maurice Colbourne](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-colbourne) as Feraud's second - [Albert Finney](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-finney) as Joseph Fouché - [Stacy Keach](https://cinepixo.com/people/stacy-keach) as the Narrator - [W. Morgan Sheppard](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-morgan-sheppard) as the fencing master - [Hugh Fraser](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugh-fraser) as Officer - [Robert Stephens](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-stephens) as Anne-François-Charles Trelliard ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-duellists-1977 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1212051); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.