Year: 1927 (restored 1981)
Runtime: 3 hours, 42 minutes
Country: France
Language: Silent. Music by Carmine Coppola
Subtitles: English inter-titles
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Director: Abel Gance
Cast:
Albert Dieudonne … Napoleon Bonaparte
Vladimir Roudenko … Napoleon Bonaparte enfant
Edmond Van Daele … Maximilien Robespierre
Alexandre Koubitzky … Danton
Antonin Artaud … Marat
Abel Gance … Louis Saint-Just
Gina Manes … Josephine de Beauharnais
Suzanne Bianchetti … Marie-Antoinette
Marguerite Gance … Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonne … Elisa Bonaparte
Philippe Heriat … Antonio Salicetti
Pierre Batcheff … Le general Lazare Hoche
Eugenie Buffet … Laetizia Bonaparte
Plot/Synopsis:
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), 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 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make 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.
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