Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert

Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert
Directed byPhilippe Harel
Written byOlivier Dazat
Philippe Harel
Benoît Poelvoorde
Produced byArnauld de Battice
Bertrand Faivre
Sylvain Goldberg
Adeline Lecallier
Alain Rocca
StarringBenoît Poelvoorde
José Garcia
Daniel Ceccaldi
Narrated byDavid Saunders
CinematographyGilles Henry
Edited byBénédicte Teiger
Music byPhilippe Eidel
Distributed byBAC Films
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
Running time
119 minutes
CountriesFrance, Belgium
LanguageFrench

Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert is a 2001 French-Belgian comedy film directed by Philippe Harel.[1]

Plot

In the early 1970s Ghislain Lambert, a Belgian cyclist who is born on the same day as Eddy Merckx, wants to become a cycling champion after seeing TV footage of Merckx winning his 1972-hour record. He tries to get involved with a big cycling championship, but only gets a job as a water carrier. His obsession becomes bigger when Merckx appears to him in a dream. Determined in his dream of becoming a victorious cyclist Lambert tries to look for different ways to achieve his goal...

Cast

  • Benoît Poelvoorde - Ghislain Lambert
  • José Garcia - Claude Lambert
  • Daniel Ceccaldi - Maurice Focodel
  • Sacha Bourdo - Denis
  • Emmanuel Quatra - Riccardo Fortuna
  • Jean-Baptiste Iera - Fabrice Bouillon
  • Christelle Cornil - Babette
  • Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert - Madame Lambert
  • Fernand Guiot - M. de Kimpe
  • Antoine de Caunes - Narrator
  • Frédéric Renson - Manu
  • Pierre Martot - Dr. Epedex
  • Éric Naggar - Le mage
  • Michel de Warzée - Mr. Vandenbroek
  • François Berland - TV animator
  • Fabian Lion - Swedish cyclist

See also

Sources

  1. ^ "Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert".