Napoleon
Genres
Overview
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
190 min
Release Date
1955-03-25
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
17
Vote Average
6.3
Daniel Gélin
Napoléon Bonaparte
Michèle Morgan
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Raymond Pellegrin
Old Napoléon Bonaparte
Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Jeanne Boitel
Madame de Dino
Gilbert Bokanowski
Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Pierre Brasseur
Barras
Gianna Maria Canale
Pauline Borghese
Jean Chevrier
General Duroc
Danielle Darrieux
Eléonore Denuelle
Clément Duhour
Marshal Michel Ney
Jacques Dumesnil
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
O.W. Fischer
Karl von Metternich
Jean Gabin
Marshal Jean Lannes
Cosetta Greco
Elisa Baccioli
Madeleine Lebeau
Emilie Pellapra
Jean Marais
Count Montholon
Lana Marconi
Marie Walewska
Luis Mariano
Garat
Armand Mestral
Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Yves Montand
Lefebvre
Patachou
Madame Sans-Gêne
Roger Pigaut
Marquis de Caulaincourt
Micheline Presle
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Serge Reggiani
Lucien Bonaparte
Dany Robin
Désirée Clary
Noël Roquevert
General Cambronne
Maria Schell
Marie-Louise d'Autriche
Erich von Stroheim
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maurice Teynac
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Henri Vidal
Marshal Joachim Murat
Orson Welles
Sir Hudson Lowe
Roland Alexandre
Count of Blanc-Mesnil
Lucien Baroux
Louis XVIII
Pauline Carton
An innkeeper
Michèle Cordoue
Laetitia
Jean Danet
General Gourgaud
Jean Debucourt
Count Joseph Fouché
Bernard Dhéran
Bourrienne (uncredited)
Maurice Escande
Louis XV (uncredited)
Maria Favella
Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Gilbert Gil
Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Daniel Ivernel
Cambacérès (uncredited)
Marie Mansart
Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
Robert Manuel
Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
Jean Marchat
General Bertrand (uncredited)
Nicole Maurey
Madame Tallien (uncredited)
Anne Carrère
Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
Dora Doll
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Louis de Funès
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Pierre Would
Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)
Paul Dupuis
Neipperg
5.4
Pan Tadeusz
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
1999-10-18 | pl
6.5
Kolberg
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
1945-01-30 | de
3.7
Imperial Venus
The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.
1962-12-22 | it
6.1
Napoleon and Me
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
2006-10-13 | it
5.9
The Pride and the Passion
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
1957-07-10 | en
4.3
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police.
1968-11-21 | de
5.5
Napoleon’s James Bond
Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of police and Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite spy. A look back on his adventurous life with the purpose of unraveling the many mysteries of his unique path.
2017-10-07 | de
6.7
War and Peace
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
1956-08-21 | en
7.7
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
2002-01-23 | en
6.6
Goya's Ghosts
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
2006-11-08 | en
6.4
Désirée
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
1954-11-16 | en
6.8
The Count of Monte Cristo
After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to revenge himself on them.
1934-09-06 | en
7.8
Napoleon
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.
1927-01-10 | fr
6.4
The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
1937-11-05 | en
7.0
Napoleon
In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to the French people and convinced him he was destined for greatness. Learn of his love for Josephine Beauharnais, and his rise to Emperor. Witness his extraordinary achievements and ultimately his fall, his final battles, his exile to Elba, and his defeat at Waterloo. For nearly two decades he strode the world stage like a colossus -- loved and despised, venerated and feared. From his birth on the rugged island of Corsica to his final exile on the godforsaken island of St. Helena, NAPOLEON brings this extraordinary figure to life.
2000-11-16 | en
7.5
Waterloo: The Last Battle
This is the thrilling tale of one of the most famous battles in history. Hour by hour and often minute by minute, Waterloo describes the battle's twists and turns. Based on the written testimonies of actual combatants, Waterloo describes, without romanticising, the experience of battle, the hopes, fears, suffering, and death.
2014-05-14 | fr
0.0
Dumas: Black Devil
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutionary French general. The son of a nobleman, Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, and an African slave, Marie-Cessette Dumas, he became the first and highest-ranking Black leader in the French military and served under Napoleon Bonaparte. But despite his many exploits, which earned him the nickname of “Black Devil,” his role in the French Revolution was underplayed and he was even denied a full pension and legion of honor by Bonaparte.
| fr
4.0
Interview Between Napoleon and the Pope
This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.
1897-09-01 | fr
6.7
The Emperor's New Clothes
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
2001-08-11 | en
6.6
The Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
1960-06-17 | fr