Summary
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.
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
Nicolas Koline
Tristan Fleury
Annabella
Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Marguerite Gance
Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonné
Élisa Bonaparte
Eugénie Buffet
Letizia Bonaparte
Maurice Schutz
Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli
Philippe Hériat
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
Acho Chakatouny
Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
Louis Sance
King Louis XVI of France
Suzanne Bianchetti
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Georges Cahuzac
Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais
Max Maxudian
Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
Harry Krimer
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Francine Mussey
Anne Lucile Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis
Robert Vidalin
Camille Desmoulins
Henri Baudin
Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd
Daniel Buiret
Augustin Robespierre
Adrien Caillard
Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord
Roger Blum
François-Joseph Talma
Pierre Batcheff
General Louis Lazare Hoche
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
Damia
La Marseillaise
Pierre de Canolle
Auguste de Marmont
Gilbert Dacheux
Jean-Pierre du Teil
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 Fleury
Jean Gaudrey
Jean-Lambert Tallien
Simone Genevois
Pauline Bonaparte
Georges Hénin
Eugène Rose from Beauharnais
Jean Henry
Sergeant Jean-Andoche Junot
Henry Krauss
Moustache
Georges Lampin
Joseph Bonaparte
Alexandre Mathillon
General Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer
Genica Missirio
Joachim Murat
Jeanne Pen
Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais
Roblin
Picot de Peccaduc
Jack Rye
Charles O'Hara
Andrée Standart
Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien
Suzy Vernon
Madame Juliette Récamier
Petit Vidal
Pierre Philippeaux
Louis Vonelly
Poet André Marie Chénier
Jean d'Yd
La Bussière
René Jeanne
Professor at Brienne
Philippe Rolla
André Masséna
François Viguier
Georges Auguste Couthon
Grégoire Metchnikoff
Charles Pierre François Augereau
Pierrette Lugand
Caroline Bonaparte
Roger Chantal
Jérôme Bonaparte
Jean Rauzena
Louis Bonaparte
Henri Beaulieu
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Daniel Mendaille
Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron
Paul Amiot
Antoine Fouquier-Tinville
Georgette Sorelle
Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de France, Madame Élisabeth
Mony Thomassin
Marie-Thérèse de France, Madame Royale
Lise Carvalho
Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Lenormand
Florence Talma
Louise Sébastienne Danton, born Gély
Noëlle Mattô
Albertine Marat
Henry Bonvallet
General Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay
Raphaël Lievin
Fabre d'Églantine
Conrad Veidt
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Camille Beuve
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
W. Percy Day
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Olaf Fjord
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte
Crew
Director, Writer
Abel Gance
Reviews
Geronimo1967
June 6, 2022
8
Where to start? Carl Davis' recently composed inspiring score provides a wonderful accompaniment to the truly epic silent retrospective on the life of Napoleon. I saw a digital restoration recently and the quality of this over 90 year old film (in 2 parts) has lost none of its vivacity and vigour. We start with a snowball fight and end with high drama via some magnificent battle scenes. The tints and hues are subtle and vibrant and Abel Gance directs this with real flair and accomplishment. True, it is long; but compellingly so and if you are at all interested in the story of himself; the French reinvigoration that he led and inspired and of the subsequent historical events that gripped the whole of Europe then this is just the film. It seems way too brief a review for such a masterpiece, but in this case - less is definitely more. His megalomania and shrewd determination is writ large with excellent performances and grand cinematography well ahead of it's time. A big screen must if ever there was one - though take a cushion! (It is also worth acclaiming the skills of those responsible for the preservation and restoration of this film - it is astonishing how much of it has still survived, and in such great quality).
Media
Status:
Released
Original Language:
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$39,448.00
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