{{short description|1981 film by George Kaczender}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Chanel Solitaire | image = Chanel Solitaire.jpg | caption = French poster | director = George Kaczender | producer = Éric Rochat <br> Larry G. Spangler | writer = Julian More | based_on = ''Chanel Solitaire'' by Claude Delay | narrator = | starring = Marie-France Pisier <br> Timothy Dalton <br> Rutger Hauer <br> Karen Black | music = Jean Musy | cinematography = Ricardo Aronovich | editing = Georges Klotz | studio =Eurocitel<br> Larry Spangler Productions <br> Gardenia Films | distributor =Sunset Distribution <br> United Film Distribution Company | released ={{Film date|1981|10|16|New York|1983|10|12|France|df=y}} | runtime = 120 minutes | country = France <br> United Kingdom<br>United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''Chanel Solitaire''''' is a 1981 British-French-American historical drama film directed by George Kaczender and starring Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer, Brigitte Fossey, Karen Black, Lambert Wilson. The film's subject was Coco Chanel.<ref>Brown & Vidal p.177</ref> Its budget was around £7 million.<ref name="org">{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-back-to-the-future-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-british-film-industry-in-the-1980s.pdf|page=20|title=Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing|publisher=British Film Institute|date=2005}}</ref> The film was based on the novel of the same title by Claude Delay.<ref>Goble p.137</ref> It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and location shooting in Deauville and Le Meux. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Saulnier.
== Cast == * Marie-France Pisier as Coco Chanel * Timothy Dalton as Boy Capel * Rutger Hauer as Étienne Balsan * Karen Black as Émilienne d'Alençon * Brigitte Fossey as Adrienne * Leila Fréchet as Young Coco Chanel * Philippe Nicaud as Gabrielle's Father * Alexandra Stewart as Nathalie * Catherine Allégret as Gabrielle's Friend * Hélène Vallier as Aunt Louise * Jean-Marie Proslier as Poiret * Nicole Maurey as Grande Dame * Humbert Balsanas Robert * Catherine Alcover as Lady * Albert Augier as Headwaiter * Corine Blue as Young Woman * Lyne Chardonnet as Young Nun * Yvonne Dany as Woman I * Isabelle Duby as Leon's Girlfriend * Huguette Faget as Woman II * Louise Vincent as Matron * David Gabison as Priest * Louba Guertchikoff as Woman III * Philippe Mareuil as Supervisor *Jean-Gabriel Nordmann as Boy's Secretary * Lionel Rocheman as Tailor * Violetta Sanchez as Blandine * Jimmy Shuman as Voice at La Rotonde * Jean Valmont as Fat Man * Sylvia Zerbib as Young Maid
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Brown, Tom & Vidal, Belén. ''The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture''. Routledge, 2013. * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
==External links== * {{IMDb title}} {{Chanel}}
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