Country
France
Date
Apr 07, 1927
Note
4h10 - « Opéra » version (short version) with Final Tryptych
7h 5min
Overall average
5.0/10
Trailer
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Plot
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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Nicolas Koline | Tristan Fleury |
| Annabella | Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary |
| Marguerite Gance | Charlotte Corday |
| Yvette Dieudonné | Élisa Bonaparte |
| Eugénie Buffet | Letizia Bonaparte |
| Maurice Schutz | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli |
| Philippe Hériat | Antoine Christophe Saliceti |
| Acho Chakatouny | Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo |
| Louis Sance | King Louis XVI of France |
| Suzanne Bianchetti | Queen Marie-Antoinette of France |
| Georges Cahuzac | Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais |
| Max Maxudian | Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras |
| Harry Krimer | Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
| Francine Mussey | Anne Lucile Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis |
| Robert Vidalin | Camille Desmoulins |
| Henri Baudin | Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd |
| Daniel Buiret | Augustin Robespierre |
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| Adrien Caillard | Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord |
| Roger Blum | François-Joseph Talma |
| Pierre Batcheff | General Louis Lazare Hoche |
| Alex Bernard | General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois |
| Carrie Carvalho | The Seer |
| Sylvio Cavicchia | Lucien Bonaparte (Adult) |
| Léon Courtois | General Jean François Carteaux |
| Damia | La Marseillaise |
| Pierre de Canolle | Auguste de Marmont |
| Gilbert Dacheux | Jean-Pierre du Teil |
| Pierre Danis | Colonel Jean-Baptiste Muiron |
| W. Percy Day | Captain Louis Charles Antoine Desaix |
| Boris de Fast | The Green Eye |
| Guy Favières | Joseph Fouché |
| Serge Freddy-Karl | The Small Drum Marcellin Fleury |
| Jean Gaudrey | Jean-Lambert Tallien |
| Simone Genevois | Pauline Bonaparte |
| Georges Hénin | Eugène Rose from Beauharnais |
| Jean Henry | Sergeant Jean-Andoche Junot |
| Henry Krauss | Moustache |
| Georges Lampin | Joseph Bonaparte |
| Alexandre Mathillon | General Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer |
| Genica Missirio | Joachim Murat |
| Jeanne Pen | Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais |
| Roblin | Picot de Peccaduc |
| Jack Rye | Charles O'Hara |
| Andrée Standart | Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien |
| Suzy Vernon | Madame Juliette Récamier |
| Petit Vidal | Pierre Philippeaux |
| Louis Vonelly | Poet André Marie Chénier |
| Jean d'Yd | La Bussière |
| René Jeanne | Professor at Brienne |
| Philippe Rolla | André Masséna |
| François Viguier | Georges Auguste Couthon |
| Grégoire Metchnikoff | Charles Pierre François Augereau |
| Pierrette Lugand | Caroline Bonaparte |
| Roger Chantal | Jérôme Bonaparte |
| Jean Rauzena | Louis Bonaparte |
| Henri Beaulieu | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
| Daniel Mendaille | Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron |
| Paul Amiot | Antoine Fouquier-Tinville |
| Georgette Sorelle | Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de France, Madame Élisabeth |
| Mony Thomassin | Marie-Thérèse de France, Madame Royale |
| Lise Carvalho | Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Lenormand |
| Florence Talma | Louise Sébastienne Danton, born Gély |
| Noëlle Mattô | Albertine Marat |
| Henry Bonvallet | General Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay |
| Raphaël Lievin | Fabre d'Églantine |
| Conrad Veidt | Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade |
| Camille Beuve | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin |
| W. Percy Day | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood |
| Olaf Fjord | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte |
Genres
DramaHistoryWar
Technical details
| Dettaglio | Valore |
|---|---|
| Titolo originale | Napoléon |
| Lingua originale | FR |
| Lingue parlate | No Language |
| Paesi di produzione | France |
| Stato | Released |
| Compagnie di produzione | Société Westi, Ciné France, Films Abel Gance, Isepa-Wengeroff Film, Pathé Consortium Cinéma, Société générale des films |
| Data di uscita | 10 gennaio 1927 |
| Producer | Henry de Cazotte, Hugo Stinnes, Wengeroff |
| Writer | Abel Gance |
| Casting | Louis Osmont |
| Editors | Abel Gance, Henriette Pinson, Marguerite Beaugé |
| Cinematography | Joseph-Louis Mundwiller, Jules Kruger, Nikolai Toporkoff, Léonce-Henri Burel, Roger Hubert, Paul Briquet, Lee Planskoy, Marcel Eywinger, Fédote Bourgasoff, Monniot, Émile Pierre, Georges Lucas |
| Asst. Directors | Henri Andréani, Viktor Tourjansky, Pierre Danis, Jean Mitry, Henry Krauss, Mario Nalpas, Alexandre Volkoff, Georges Lampin, Sacher Purnal, Jean Arroy, Anatole Litvak, Abel Gance, Simone Surdieux |
| Lighting | Albinet, Graza, Henri Berryer, Doublon |
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Release dates
Premiere
Country
Italy
Date
Aug 20, 1953
Note
Restoration (by Henri Langlois and Marie Epstein), Venice Film Festival
Limited release
Country
Germany
Date
Jan 10, 1927
Note
under 3 hours - Version with Final Tryptych
Country
France
Date
Nov 14, 1927
Note
4h10 - Version with Final Triptych
Country
United States
Date
Sep 01, 1979
Note
4h50 restoration (1st by Kevin Brownlow), Telluride Film Festival
Country
United Kingdom
Date
Jun 01, 2000
Note
5h30 restoration (3rd by Kevin Brownlow)
Theatrical release
Country
France
Date
Jul 10, 2024
Certification
TP
Note
7h restoration (La Cinémathèque française)
Physical media
Country
United Kingdom
Date
Nov 01, 2016
Note
Blu-Ray & DVD (BFI) based on the 5h30 restoration (3rd by Kevin Brownlow)
Country
Netherlands
Date
Dec 19, 2016
Note
Blu ray
Country
France
Date
Nov 25, 2025
Note
4K Release Potemkine Films
TV
Country
France
Date
Nov 22, 2024
Certification
TP
Note
7h restoration, France 5
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