debut as part of the Martell French Film Tour in September and October 2000, followed by a conventional cinematic run starting on April 6, 2001. Film festivals Cannes Film Festival 1999 (out of competition - special gala screening) Toronto International Film Festival 1999 Algerian Summer Film Festival 2000 Budapest French Film Festival 2000 Moscow French Film Festival 2000 Martell French Film Tour 2000 (UK) Dublin French Film Festival 2001 Warsaw French Film Festival 2001 Soundtrack The soundtrack album to accompany the film was released by Decca Classics. The original music featured in the film consisting of a guitar and piano score was composed by Luis Bacalov. The film also features music by Ernst Eichner, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt among others. The score was recorded in January 1999 by the Rome Symphony Orchestra and featuring Fábio Zanon on guitar and Leonid Kuzmin on piano. The album was supervised by Murray Head. Track listing All tracks composed by Luis Bacalov unless otherwise indicated: Les Enfants du Siècle (Guitar) (02:23) Les Confessions (02:57) Café Tortoni (02:30) La flûte désenchantée (01:54) Concerto in C major for harp and orchestra : Allegro (04:54) (Ernst Eichner 1740-1777) Arabeske in C, Op. 18 : IV Zum Schluss (01:24) (Robert Schumann) Le baiser (02:29) Le cœur qui bat (02:16) Papillons (01:16) La première fois (05:50) Beatrice di Tenda, opera seria in due atti (04:47) (Vincenzo Bellini) Désespoir (02:05) La guérison (02:16) Le Bal (02:51) Der Müller und der Bach (05:53) (Franz Liszt) Romanze (Piuttosto lento) (02:22) (Robert Schumann) Chez Delacroix (01:34) Le cheval mort (02:31) L'amour en fuite (02:30) Les Enfants du Siècle (Piano) (02:11) Alternate versions The film was released in 2 versions with different running times. The long version as released in France on September 22, 1999 has a running time of 135 mins. It begins as Sand abandons her husband and arrives in revolution torn Paris and Musset's father dies of cholera. A shorter version was released in Germany and the UK and other territories which runs at 105mins. It begins at the literary event at which Sand and Musset met and ends with their final meeting. The longer version goes on to show Sand's attempts to see the dying Musset, and ends with her reading her letters to him by his tomb. Les Enfants du Siècle was released under the English-language title Children of the Century in the US by Koch Lorber Films, but