lady oscar

Director: jacques demy

Actor: catriona maccoll,barry stokes,patrick allen,nicholas amer

Data Published: Sat Mar 03 1979

Genres: Drama,History,Romance

Key Words: live action remake of anime,revolution,character name as title,woman dresses as a man,two word title

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077827/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Oscar_(film)

Description: Lady Oscar is a movie starring Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, and Patrick Allen. The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Plot: Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. After she was born her father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her as a man. Privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she dresses as a man and gains an honored position as a guard of Marie Antoinette (Christina Bohm). In her youth, Oscar is in love with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years. With the assault on the Bastille, Oscar and Andre find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the revolution.