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Napoléon (1927)

US:: NR Drama History

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.

Updated May 11 2020

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1929-02-11

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Runtime: 332 mins Revenue: $39,448 Rating: 7.9

Cast

Pierre Batcheff

General Louis Lazare Hoche

Maurice Schutz

Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli

Antonin Artaud

Jean-Paul Marat

Jean d'Yd

La Bussière

Abel Gance

Louis Antoine Léon from Saint-Just

Georges Lampin

Joseph-Napoléon Bonaparte

Annabella

Violine Fleuri and Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary

Marguerite Gance

Charlotte Corday

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Crew

Eugen Schüfftan

Visual Effects Supervisor

Eugen Schüfftan

Special Effects

Léonce-Henri Burel

Cinematography

Léonce-Henri Burel

Additional Photography

Eugène Lourié

Art Direction

Marguerite Beaugé

Assistant Editor

Georges Lucas

Additional Photography

Abel Gance

Director

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