Title: The Duellists
Content:  The Duellists is a 1977 British historical drama film and the feature directorial debut of Ridley Scott. It won the Best Debut Film award at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The basis of the screenplay is the Joseph Conrad short story "The Duel" (titled "Point of Honor" in the United States) published in A Set of Six. A novelization of the film by Gordon Williams, which included historical contexts and slightly expanded the plot, was published by Fontana Books in Great Britain in 1977 and by Pocket Books (ISBN: 0-671-81930-5) in the United States in 1978.
Title: The Duellists
Content:  The Duellists would mark the feature film debut of Ridley Scott who had previously worked making TV commercials. Its visual style was influenced by Stanley Kubrick's 1975 historical drama Barry Lyndon. Due to budgetary constraints, Scott decided to shoot the film in a series of tableaux to indicate chapters of the story.
Title: The Duellists
Content:  as Feraud's mistress ; Meg Wynn Owen as Leonie, d'Hubert's sister ; Jenny Runacre as Madame de Lionne, a lady in Strasbourg ; Alan Webb as the Chevalier du Rivarol, Adele's uncle ; Matthew Guinness as the Mayor of Strasbourg's nephew ; Dave Hill as Cuirassier ; William Hobbs as Swordsman ; W. Morgan Sheppard as the fencing master ; Liz Smith as the fortune teller ; Hugh Fraser as Officer ; Michael Irving as Officer ; Tony Matthews as Treillard's aide-de-camp ; Pete Postlethwaite as Treillard's orderly (this was his first feature film appearance) ; Stacy Keach as the Narrator (voice only) 
Title: The Duellists
Content:  much in the way that other movies use soundtrack music, to set mood, to complement scenes and even to contradict them. Sometimes it's all too much, yet the camerawork, which is by Frank Tidy, provides the Baroque style by which the movie operates on our senses, making the eccentric drama at first compelling and ultimately breathtaking." Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote, "'The Duellists' is an epic yarn; we sit back and observe it, and it's consistently entertaining—and eerily beautiful." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "The story might have worked if there were an undercurrent of attractiveness to Keitel's loutish character. But he is 
Title: The Duellists
Content: Keith Carradine as Armand d'Hubert ; Harvey Keitel as Gabriel Feraud ; Albert Finney as Joseph Fouché, Minister of Police ; Edward Fox as Colonel Perteley, a Bonapartist agent ; Cristina Raines as Adele, later d'Hubert's wife ; Robert Stephens as Brigadier-General Treillard ; Tom Conti as Dr Jacquin, an army surgeon and friend of d'Hubert ; John McEnery as Feraud's tall second in the final duel ; Arthur Dignam as d'Hubert's one-eyed second in the final duel ; Diana Quick as Laura, d'Hubert's mistress ; Alun Armstrong as Lieutenant Lecourbe, a friend of d'Hubert ; Maurice Colbourne as Feraud's second ; Gay 
Title: Ridley Scott
Content:  The Duellists (1977) marked Ridley Scott's first feature film as director. Shot in Europe, it was nominated for the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and won an award for Best Debut Film. The Duellists had limited commercial impact internationally. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) whose quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter extended feud spanning fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. The film has been acclaimed for providing a historically authentic portrayal of Napoleonic uniforms and military conduct. The 2013 release of the film on Blu-ray coincided with the 
Title: The Duellists
Content:  Scott initially hired Gerald Vaughan-Hughes to write a story about Guy Fawkes and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot but when financing fell through, Vaughan-Hughes adapted the screenplay from the 1907 novella The Duel by British-Polish writer Joseph Conrad. The genesis of Conrad's story were the real duels during the Napoleonic era between two officers in France's Grande Armée, Pierre Dupont de l'Étang and François Fournier-Sarlovèze, who became D’Hubert and Feraud in The Duel. In The Encyclopedia of the Sword, Nick Evangelista wrote: "As a young officer in Napoleon's Army, Dupont [l'Étang] was ordered to deliver a disagreeable message to a fellow officer, Fournier [Fournier-Sarlovèze], a rabid duellist. Fournier, taking out his subsequent rage on the messenger, challenged Dupont to a duel. This sparked a succession of encounters, waged with sword and pistol, that spanned 
Title: The Duelist (2016 film)
Content:  The movie goes back to the novels of City mysteries, popular in the middle of the 19th century (the most famous example - Les Vrais Mystères de Paris (1844) by Eugène François Vidocq). In preparation for filming, Alex Mizgirev reviewed the movie The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott (1977) and loosely based on the novel by Joseph Conrad's Duel, which, in turn, was inspired by Pushkin's The Shot.
Title: The Duellists
Content:  unwavering boor from start to finish, and his prowess with weapons is in no way redeeming." Variety wrote that Ridley Scott "does have an eye for fine compositions, period recreation and arresting tableaus. But it is somewhat surface and too taken up with poses… it rarely illuminates the deeper human aspects of these two flailing men." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the sword fights were "the best I've ever seen" and called the story "refreshingly different from standard film content." Michael Webb of The Washington Post wrote, "The film has the pictorial beauty and rich period sense of 'Barry Lyndon,' but adds the narrative drive and passion that Kubrick's film lacked." David 
Title: Duellen
Content: Frits Helmuth - Mikael ; Malene Schwartz - Tina ; John Price - Claes ; Axel Strøbye - Basse ; Hans Kurt - 1. skuespiller ; Buster Larsen - 2. skuespiller ; Vera Gebuhr - Lene ; Albert Watson - Kampdommeren ; Ulla Darni - Refrænsangerinden Sussy ; Elith Pio - Tinas morfar ; Poul Müller - Professoren ; Karl Stegger - Opsynsmanden ; Aage Winther-Jørgensen - Bloddonor ; Minna Jørgensen - Sygeplejerske ; Paul Thomsen - Tjener ; Knud Rex - Konferencieren 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Duellists?
Answer: Joseph Conrad.
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski.