
Napoleon (1927)
Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
330 min
A biopic of former Emperor of France, 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 1797 invasion of Italy.
- Release date
- April 7, 1927
- Country of origin
- Italy, France, Germany
- Box office
- $2,539,448
Where to watch
Free
Darkroom
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Trailer
Cast
- Albert Dieudonné as Napoléon Bonaparte
- Nicolas Roudenko as Napoléon Bonaparte enfant
- Edmond Van Daële as Maximilien Robespierre
- Antonin Artaud as Jean-Paul Marat
- Abel Gance as Louis Saint-Just
- Gina Manès as Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Nicolas Koline as Tristan Fleury
- Annabella as Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
- Marguerite Gance as Charlotte Corday
- 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 La reine Marie-Antoinette
- Georges Cahuzac as Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais
- Max Maxudian as Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
- Francine Mussey as Anne Lucile Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis
- Robert Vidalin as Camille Desmoulins
- 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
- Alexandre Koubitzky as Georges-Jacques Danton
- Yvette Dieudonné as Élisa Bonaparte
Crew
- Abel Gance · Director
- Abel Gance · Writer
- Simon Cloquet-Lafollye · Composer
- Carmine Coppola · Composer
- Carl Davis · Composer
- Arthur Honegger · Composer
- Léonce-Henri Burel · Cinematographer
- Jules Kruger · Cinematographer
- Joseph-Louis Mundwiller · Cinematographer
- Nikolai Toporkoff · Cinematographer
- Abel Gance · Editor
- Louis Osmont · Casting director