In this article the author analyses Battle for ʻErnaniʼ that is a French film narrating about a famous battle that took place during the premiere of a play written by Victor Hugo, a charismatic leader of the literary movement of Romanticism. The exquisite combination of the theatrical and cinematographic features which can be discerned in this film is aimed at a screen adaptation of metatext. The film recreates the interpretation of the literary work by the epoch that produced it.