Napoleon

(1927)

Original Title: Napoléon

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Synopsis

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.

Rating

IMDB 8.2 (8k)

Genres

Drama, Comedy, Made in Europe, History, War & Military

Runtime

5h 33min

Age rating

PG

Production country

France

Director

Abel Gance

Cast

Albert Dieudonné
Napoléon Bonaparte
Vladimir Roudenko
Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)
Edmond van Daële
Maximilien Robespierre
Alexandre Koubitzky
Georges Jacques Danton
Antonin Artaud
Jean-Paul Marat
Abel Gance
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Gina Manès
Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais
Suzanne Bianchetti
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Marguerite Gance
Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonné
Élisa Bonaparte
Eugénie Buffet
Laetizia Bonaparte
Nicolas Koline
Tristan Fleuri
Henri Baudin
Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd
Daniel Buiret
Augustin Robespierre
Georges Cahuzac
Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais
Adrien Caillard
Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord
Roger Blum
François-Joseph Talma
Max Maxudian
Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
Philippe Hériat
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
Pierre Batcheff
General Louis Lazare Hoche
Eugénie Buffet
Letizia Bonaparte
Acho Chakatouny
Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
Annabella
Violine Fleuri / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Alex Bernard
General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Carrie Carvalho
The Seer
Sylvio Cavicchia
Lucien Bonaparte (Adult)
Léon Courtois
General Jean François Carteaux
Pierre de Canolle
Auguste de Marmont
Gilbert Dacheux
Jean-Pierre du Teil
Damia
La Marseillaise
Pierre Danis
Colonel Jean-Baptiste Muiron
W. Percy Day
Captain Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
Boris de Fast
The Green Eye
Guy Favières
Joseph Fouché
Serge Freddy-Karl
The Small Drum Marcellin Fleuri
Jean Gaudrey
Jean-Lambert Tallien
Simone Genevois
Pauline Bonaparte
Georges Hénin
Eugène Rose from Beauharnais
Jean Henry
Sergeant Jean-Andoche Junot
Henry Krauss
Moustache
Harry Krimer
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Georges Lampin
Joseph Bonaparte
Alexandre Mathillon
General Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer
Genica Missirio
Joachim Murat
Francine Mussey
Anne Lucile Philippe Laridon Duplessis
Jeanne Pen
Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais
Roblin
Picot de Peccaduc
Jack Rye
Charles O'Hara
Louis Sance
King Louis XVI of France
Maurice Schutz
Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli
Andrée Standart
Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien
Suzy Vernon
Madame Juliette Récamier
Petit Vidal
Pierre Philippeaux
Robert Vidalin
Camille Desmoulins
Louis Vonelly
Poet André Marie Chénier
Jean d'Yd
La Bussière
René Jeanne
Professor at Brienne
Philippe Rolla
André Masséna