Waterloo
Waterloo
Release: 1929-11-07
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 4.0
War
Thriller
History
This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general Blutcher (who is seen as a ladies' man - his scene with a flirty Countess about halfway through the film is priceless; as are his touching scenes with his plain wife (who he imagines to be a young and nubile girl when they get romantic) and some people within his regiment. Not simply a film of war, 'Waterloo' is a story of people, of lovers, of lost opportunities.
Cast
Charles Vanel
as Napoleon
Carl de Vogt
as Marshall Ney
Charles Willy Kayser
as König Friedrich Wilhelm III.
Friedrich Ulmer
as Gneisenau
Camilla von Hollay
as Ihre Zofe
Betty Bird
as Rieke, seine Braut
Vera Malinovskaya
as Gräfin Tarnowska
Oskar Marion
as Leutnant Reutlingen, Blüchers Adjutant
Fred Immler
as Erster Grenadier
Otto Gebühr
as 'Der alte Fritz' & Feldmarschall Blücher
Auguste Prasch-Grevenberg
as Blüchers Frau
Will Dohm
as Graf Lagarde
