Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert

Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert is a 2001 French-Belgian comedy film directed by Philippe Harel.

Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert
Directed by	Philippe Harel
Written by	Olivier Dazat, Philippe Harel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Produced by	Arnauld de Battice, Bertrand Faivre, Sylvain Goldberg, Adeline Lecallier, Alain Rocca
Starring	Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia, Daniel Ceccaldi
Narrated by	David Saunders
Cinematography	Gilles Henry
Edited by	Bénédicte Teiger
Music by	Philippe Eidel
Distributed by	BAC Films
Release date	2001 (2001)
Running time	119 minutes
Countries	France, Belgium
Language	French

Plot

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...

Cast

• Benoît Poelvoorde - Ghislain Lambert
• José Garcia - Claude Lambert
• Daniel Ceccaldi - Maurice Focodel
• Sacha Bourdo - Denis
• Emmanuel Quatra - Riccardo Fortuna
• Jean-Baptiste Iera - Fabrice Bouillon
• Christelle Cornil - Babette
• Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert - Madame Lambert
• Fernand Guiot - M. de Kimpe
• Antoine de Caunes - Narrator
• Frédéric Renson - Manu
• Pierre Martot - Dr. Epedex
• Éric Naggar - Le mage
• Michel de Warzée - Mr. Vandenbroek
• François Berland - TV animator
• Fabian Lion - Swedish cyclist

External links

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252665/reference
• http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=29196.html