Napoleon(Movie, 1927)

Name: Napoleon
Genre: Drama, History, War
Released: 1927
Duration: T05:33:00
Rating: 3.8

Original title: "Napoléon" (French/FR)

5h 33min | Genres: Drama, History, War

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 68 votes)

Napoléon is a 1927 French silent epic historical film, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon's early years. It is also the only film to use Polyvision (for the finale). On screen, the title is Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, meaning "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance". The film is recognised as a masterwork of fluid camera motion, produced in a time when most camera shots were static. Many innovative techniques were used to make the film, including fast cutting, extensive close-ups, a wide variety of hand-held camera shots, location shooting, point of view shots, multiple-camera setups, multiple exposure, superimposition, underwater camera, kaleidoscopic images, film tinting, split screen and mosaic shots, multi-screen projection, and other visual effects. A revival of Napoléon in the mid-1950s influenced the filmmakers of the French New Wave. The film used the Keller-Dorian cinematography for its color sequences. The film begins in Brienne-le-Château with youthful Napoleon attending milit... ()

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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. Originally intended to be the first of six films, director Abel Gance realized the full project would be nigh impossible, and never raised the money to complete 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: France

Plays in: Italy, Paris

Made by: Pathé Consortium Cinéma, Société générale des films, Films Abel Gance, Société Westi, Ciné France, Isepa-Wengeroff Film GmbH

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: No Language (XX)

Translated into 12 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 04/07/1927

Appearing Characters: Napoleon, Maria-Letizia Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, Lazare Hoche, Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo, Antoine Christophe Saliceti, Pierre Augereau, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jean François Carteaux, Jean-Baptiste Muiron, Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, Joseph Fouché, François-Joseph Talma, Lucien Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, Charlotte Corday, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Jean-Andoche Junot, Joachim Murat, André Masséna, Juliette Récamier, Princess Élisabeth of France, Lucile Duplessis, Elisa Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte, Thérésa Tallien, Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, Marie Anne Lenormand, Hortense de Beauharnais, Jacques-François Menou, Louis Desaix, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Jacques François Dugommier, Fabre d'Églantine, Charles de La Buissière, Camille Desmoulins, Jérôme Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pasquale Paoli, André Chénier, Georges Couthon, Marquis de Sade, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Horatio Nelson, Stendhal, Antoine Le Picard de Phélippeaux, Jean-Charles Pichegru

Cast: Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond Van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti, Pierre Batcheff, Nikolay Kolin, Annabella, Eugénie Buffet, Acho Chakatouny, Adrien Caillard, Armand Bernard, Armand Lurville, Blanche Beaume, Conrad Veidt, Marie-Louise Damien, Daniel Mendaille, Edy Debray, Ernest Maupain, Francine Mussey, François Viguier, Georges Cahuzac, Georges Lampin, Georges Paulais, Georgette Sorelle, Guy Favières, Henri Baudin, Henri Beaulieu, Henry Bonvallet, Henry Krauss, Jane Marken, Jean d'Yd, Jean Tissier, Laurent Morléas, Léo Courtois, Léon Larive, Louis Vonelly, Marcel Delaître, Marcel Pérès, Maurice Schutz, Max Maxudian, Olaf Fjord, Paul Amiot, Philippe Hériat, Philippe Rolla, Rivers Cadet, Robert Arnoux, Robert Vidalin, Roger Blin, Simone Genevois, Suzy Vernon, Vladimir Sokoloff, Edmond T. Gréville, André Cerf, Camille Beuve, Fabien Haziza, Sylvie Gance, Joë Hamman, Harry Krimer, Alexandre Koubitzky, Louis Sance, Grégoire Metchnikoff, Pierre Danis, Roger Blum, Sylvio Cavicchia, Marguerite Gance, Jean Henry, Genica Missirio, Yvette Dieudonné, Pierrette Lugand, Andrée Standard, Mony Thomassin, Lise Carvalho, Janine Pen, Robert de Ansorena, Alex Bernard, Raphaël Liévin, Roger Chantal, Jean Rauzéna, W. Percy Day, Jean Jacquinet, José Squinquel, René Jeanne

Director: Abel Gance

Producer: Abel Gance

Screenwriter: Abel Gance

Film Editor: Abel Gance

Director of Photography: Jules Kruger, Georges Meyer, Léonce-Henri Burel

Composer: Arthur Honegger

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Наполеон"

"Napoleão"

"Napoleón visto por Abel Gance"

"Napoléon Bonaparte"

"Napoléon vu par Abel Gance"

"Napoleone"

"나폴레옹"

"Napoleão"

"Наполеон"

"Napolyon"

"Abel Gance's Napoleon"

Keywords: biography, french revolution, silent film, political campaign, black and white, french impressionism

Revenue: 39,448 USD

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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