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Douglas Fairbanks in 1920 was the first film director to ask a fencing master to assist the production of a fencing scene in cinema. [1] A second wave of swashbuckling films was triggered with Errol Flynn from 1935. Also notable in the early period were Ramon Novarro, Rudolph Valentino, and John Barrymore.
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Alexander Villard (Eric Roberts) is a former fencing champion who runs a highly competitive fencing school. One of his students describes him as "a freak who thinks he's living in the fourteenth century". [3] Max Suba (F. Murray Abraham) is an ex-convict who introduces himself as a fencing instructor. Villard initially gives him a job as a janitor.
It was released on LaserDisc twice; first on MCA's DiscoVision in 1979, and by MCA/Universal Home Video in 1993. It was also released on VHS twice; in 1982 on the MCA Videocassette Inc label, and again in 1990 by MCA/Universal. Duel was first released on DVD by Universal on August 17, 2004, as a full frame collector's edition. Before that, Duel ...
After the games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel. [1] Aldolfo Contronei, described in some sources as a 45-year-old fencing critic for an Italian newspaper [2] and others as the captain of the Italian foil team, [3] fought Giorgio Santelli, the 27-year-old son of the Hungarian Olympic team's coach Italo Santelli.
The Duel: A History, Robert Baldick (1965, 1996) Dueling With the Sword and Pistol: 400 Years of One-on-One Combat, Paul Kirchner (2004) Duel, James Landale (2005). ISBN 1-84195-647-3. The story of the last fatal duel in Scotland; Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature, Irina Reyfman (1999).
One of the most notable films related to fencing is the 2015 Finnish-Estonian-German film The Fencer, directed by Klaus Härö, which is loosely based on the life of Endel Nelis, an accomplished Estonian fencer and coach. [25] The film was nominated for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. [26]
Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play.It stars Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, and Saniyya Sidney.