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Napoléon (1927)
Directed by Abel Gance
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.
Rated NR | Length 333 minutes
Actors
Albert Dieudonné | Vladimir Roudenko | Edmond Van Daële | Alexandre Koubitzky | Antonin Artaud | Abel Gance | Gina Manès | Suzanne Bianchetti | Marguerite Gance | Yvette Dieudonné | Nicolas Koline | Henri Baudin | Daniel Buiret | Georges Cahuzac | Adrien Caillard | Roger Blum | Max Maxudian | Philippe Hériat | Pierre Batcheff | Eugénie Buffet | Acho Chakatouny | Annabella | Alex Bernard | Carrie Carvalho | Sylvio Cavicchia | Léon Courtois | Pierre de Canolle | Gilbert Dacheux | Damia | Pierre Danis | W. Percy Day | Boris de Fast | Guy Favières | Serge Freddy-Karl | Jean Gaudrey | Simone Genevois | Georges Hénin | Jean Henry | Henry Krauss | Harry Krimer | Georges Lampin | Alexandre Mathillon | Genica Missirio | Francine Mussey | Jeanne Pen | Roblin | Jack Rye | Louis Sance | Maurice Schutz | Andrée Standart | Suzy Vernon | Petit Vidal | Robert Vidalin | Louis Vonelly | Jean d'Yd | René Jeanne | Philippe Rolla