Napoleon
Napoléon
Release: 1927-01-10
·Runtime: 428m
·★ 7.8
Drama
History
War
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Société Westi
Ciné France
Films Abel Gance
Isepa-Wengeroff Film
Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Société générale des films
Cast
Albert Dieudonné
as Napoléon Bonaparte
Nicolas Roudenko
as Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)
Edmond van Daële
as Maximilien Robespierre
Alexandre Koubitzky
as Georges Jacques Danton
Antonin Artaud
as Jean-Paul Marat
Abel Gance
as Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Gina Manès
as Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais
Nicolas Koline
as Tristan Fleury
Annabella
as Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Maurice Schutz
as Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli
Philippe Hériat
as Antoine Christophe Saliceti
Acho Chakatouny
as Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
Suzanne Bianchetti
as Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Max Maxudian
as Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
Harry Krimer
as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Francine Mussey
as Anne Lucile Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis
Henri Baudin
as Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd
Adrien Caillard
as Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord
Pierre Batcheff
as General Louis Lazare Hoche
Alex Bernard
as General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Léon Courtois
as General Jean François Carteaux
Damia
as La Marseillaise
Boris de Fast
as The Green Eye
Guy Favières
as Joseph Fouché
Simone Genevois
as Pauline Bonaparte
Henry Krauss
as Moustache
Genica Missirio
as Joachim Murat
Andrée Standart
as Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien
Suzy Vernon
as Madame Juliette Récamier
Louis Vonelly
as Poet André Marie Chénier
Jean d'Yd
as La Bussière
François Viguier
as Georges Auguste Couthon
Daniel Mendaille
as Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron
Paul Amiot
as Antoine Fouquier-Tinville
Georgette Sorelle
as Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de France, Madame Élisabeth
Henry Bonvallet
as General Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay
Raphaël Lievin
as Fabre d'Églantine
Conrad Veidt
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Camille Beuve
as Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Olaf Fjord
as Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte
Crew
Abel Gance
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Arthur Honegger
Original Music Composer
Abel Gance
Editor
Boris de Fast
Makeup Artist
Segundo de Chomón
Special Effects
Henry Krauss
Assistant Director
Anatole Litvak
Assistant Director
Viktor Tourjansky
Assistant Director
Alexandre Volkoff
Assistant Director
Eugène Lourié
Art Direction
Nikolai Toporkoff
Director of Photography