Napoleon

Napoleon

333 mins | Drama, War, History | April 7, 1927

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797. Originally intended to be the first of six films, director Abel Gance realized the full project would be nigh impossible, and never raised the money to complete the other five. The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

Napoleon

333 mins | Drama, War, History | April 7, 1927

Napoleon
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797. Originally intended to be the first of six films, director Abel Gance realized the full project would be nigh impossible, and never raised the money to complete the other five. The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.

Cast

Albert Dieudonné

as Napoléon Bonaparte

Vladimir Roudenko

as Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)

Edmond van Daële

as Maximilien Robespierre

Alexandre Koubitzky

as Georges Jacques Danton

Antonin Artaud

as Jean-Paul Marat

Abel Gance

as Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just

Gina Manès

as Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais

Suzanne Bianchetti

as Queen Marie-Antoinette of France

Marguerite Gance

as Charlotte Corday

Yvette Dieudonné

as Élisa Bonaparte

Eugénie Buffet

as Laetizia Bonaparte / Letizia Bonaparte

Nicolas Koline

as Tristan Fleuri

Henri Baudin

as Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd

Daniel Buiret

as Augustin Robespierre

Georges Cahuzac

as Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais

Adrien Caillard

as Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord

Roger Blum

as François-Joseph Talma

Max Maxudian

as Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras

Philippe Hériat

as Antoine Christophe Saliceti

Pierre Batcheff

as General Louis Lazare Hoche

Acho Chakatouny

as Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo

Annabella

as Violine Fleuri / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary

Alex Bernard

as General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois

Carrie Carvalho

as The Seer

Sylvio Cavicchia

as Lucien Bonaparte (Adult)

Léon Courtois

as General Jean François Carteaux

Pierre de Canolle

as Auguste de Marmont

Gilbert Dacheux

as Jean-Pierre du Teil

Damia

as La Marseillaise

Pierre Danis

as Colonel Jean-Baptiste Muiron

W. Percy Day

as Captain Louis Charles Antoine Desaix

Boris de Fast

as The Green Eye

Guy Favières

as Joseph Fouché

Serge Freddy-Karl

as The Small Drum Marcellin Fleuri

Jean Gaudrey

as Jean-Lambert Tallien

Simone Genevois

as Pauline Bonaparte

Georges Hénin

as Eugène Rose from Beauharnais

Jean Henry

as Sergeant Jean-Andoche Junot

Henry Krauss

as Moustache

Harry Krimer

as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Georges Lampin

as Joseph Bonaparte

Alexandre Mathillon

as General Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer

Genica Missirio

as Joachim Murat

Francine Mussey

as Anne Lucile Philippe Laridon Duplessis

Jeanne Pen

as Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais

Roblin

as Picot de Peccaduc

Jack Rye

as Charles O'Hara

Louis Sance

as King Louis XVI of France

Maurice Schutz

as Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli

Andrée Standart

as Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien

Suzy Vernon

as Madame Juliette Récamier

Petit Vidal

as Pierre Philippeaux

Robert Vidalin

as Camille Desmoulins

Louis Vonelly

as Poet André Marie Chénier

Jean d'Yd

as La Bussière

René Jeanne

as Professor at Brienne

Philippe Rolla

as André Masséna