Napoleon

Jan 10, 1927

7h 17m

★ 7.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

War

Production Companies

Société Westi

Ciné France

Films Abel Gance

Isepa-Wengeroff Film

Pathé Consortium Cinéma

Société générale des films

Napoleon Trailers

Cast

Napoléon Bonaparte

Albert Dieudonné

Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)

Vladimir Roudenko

Maximilien Robespierre

Edmond van Daële

Georges Jacques Danton

Alexandre Koubitzky

Jean-Paul Marat

Antonin Artaud

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just

Abel Gance

Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais

Gina Manès

Tristan Fleury

Nicolas Koline

Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary

Annabella

Charlotte Corday

Marguerite Gance

Élisa Bonaparte

Yvette Dieudonné

Letizia Bonaparte

Eugénie Buffet

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