''Wings of Fame'' is a 1990 Dutch
English-language
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comedy
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fantasy film
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(released in the UK on 26 April 1991) directed by
Otakar Votocek
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*Otakar Batlička (1895–1942), Czech adventurer, journalist, ham radio operator, member of Czech Nazi resistance group in World War ...
and starring
Peter O'Toole
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,
Colin Firth
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,
Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
,
Andréa Ferréol
Andréa Ferréol (born Andrée Louise Ferréol; January 6, 1947) is a French actress and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2009).
Her debut was in the 1973 film ''La Grande bouffe'', which made a big scandal at the Cannes Film Festival.
...
and
Robert Stephens
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.
"Wings of Fame (1990)"
BFI. The script was written by Dutch writer Herman Koch
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.
Catering of the movie (that was shot partly in Amsterdam's city theater) was done by Jan (the father of Jouke Keizer) from his catering bus parked at the Leidseplein.
Cast
* Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (; 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic ...
as Cesar Valentin
* Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He was identified in the mid-1980s with the " Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, undertaking a challenging series of roles, including leading roles in '' A M ...
as Brian Smith
* Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
as Bianca
* Andréa Ferréol
Andréa Ferréol (born Andrée Louise Ferréol; January 6, 1947) is a French actress and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (2009).
Her debut was in the 1973 film ''La Grande bouffe'', which made a big scandal at the Cannes Film Festival.
...
as Theresa
* Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 193112 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of Britain's Royal National Theatre. He was one of the most respected actors of his generation and was at one time regarded as the natur ...
as Merrick
* Ellen Umlauf as Aristida
* Maria Becker as Dr. Frisch
* Walter Gotell
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as Receptionist
* Gottfried John
Gottfried John (; 29 August 1942 – 1 September 2014) was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in nine of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and 1981, the year befor ...
as Zlatogorski
* Michiel Romeyn as Baldesari
* Nicolas Chagrin as Delgado
* Ken Campbell
Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English actor, writer and director known for his work in experimental theatre. He has been called "a one-man dynamo of British theatre".
Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1 ...
as Head Waiter
References
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1990 films
1990s fantasy comedy films
Dutch fantasy comedy films
1990s English-language films
English-language Dutch films
1990 comedy films
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