- Country: France
- Genres: Biography, Drama, History
- Release: 1929-02-17
- Director: Abel Gance
- Writers: Abel Gance
- Language: N/A
- Stars: Albert Dieudonné , Vladimir Roudenko , Edmond Van Daële , Alexandre Koubitzky
- Runtime: 330 min
- Awards: 4 wins
- AKA: Napoleon (United States of America) , Наполеон (Bulgaria) , Napoleon (Estonia) , Napoleon (Germany) , Napoleon (Norway) , Napoleon (Serbia) , Napoleon (Ireland) , Napoleón visto por Abel Gance (Cuba) , Napoleon , Napolyon (Turkey) , Napóleon (Hungary) , Napoléon (Canada) , Napoleon , Ναπολέων (Greece) , Naporeon (Japan) , Napoleon (Brazil) , Napoléon (France, French Republic) , Napoleon (Sweden) , Napoleon (Austria) , Napoleon Bonaparte (Estonia) , ナポレオン (Japan) , 拿破崙 (Hong Kong) , Napoleão (Brazil) , Abel Gance's Napoleon (United States of America) , Napoleon Bonaparte (Finland) , Napoleão (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Napoléon (Canada) , Napoleon (United Kingdom) , Napoleon (Poland) , Napoleón (Spain) , Napoléon , Napoleone (Italy) , Napoleon (Denmark) , Napoleon (Romania) , Наполеон , Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
- Plot:
A massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), 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 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film’s legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
- IMDB:tt0018192
Abel Gance
Director
Albert Dieudonné
Napoléon Bonaparte
Edmond Van Daële
Maximilien Robespierre
Antonin Artaud
Jean-Paul Marat
Abel Gance
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Gina Manès
Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais
Suzanne Bianchetti
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Marguerite Gance
Charlotte Corday
Nicolas Koline
Tristan Fleuri
Henri Baudin
Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd
Georges Cahuzac
Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais
Adrien Caillard
Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord
Max Maxudian
Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
Philippe Hériat
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
Pierre Batcheff
(1907–1932)
General Louis Lazare Hoche
Acho Chakatouny
Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
Annabella
Violine Fleuri / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Alex Bernard
General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Léon Courtois
General Jean François Carteaux
Damia
La Marseillaise
W. Percy Day
Captain Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
Boris de Fast
The Green Eye
Guy Favières
Joseph Fouché
Simone Genevois
Pauline Bonaparte
Henry Krauss
Moustache
Harry Krimer
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle