Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert | |
Director: | Philippe Harel |
Producer: | Arnauld de Battice, Bertrand Faivre, Sylvain Goldberg, Adeline Lecallier, Alain Rocca |
Narrator: | David Saunders |
Starring: | Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia, Daniel Ceccaldi |
Music: | Philippe Eidel |
Cinematography: | Gilles Henry |
Editing: | Bénédicte Teiger |
Distributor: | BAC Films |
Runtime: | 119 minutes |
Country: | France, Belgium |
Language: | French |
Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert is a 2001 French-Belgian comedy film directed by Philippe Harel.[1]
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...