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7.8A 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.
Cast
- Albert Dieudonné as Napoléon Bonaparte
- Nicolas Roudenko as Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)
- Edmond van Daële as Maximilien Robespierre
- Alexandre Koubitzky as Georges Jacques Danton
- Antonin Artaud as Jean-Paul Marat
- Abel Gance as Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Themes
- civil war
- france
- paris, france
- italy
- french revolution
- biography
- napoleon bonaparte
- based on true story
- guillotine
- black and white
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Abel Gance
- Written by
- Abel Gance
- Produced by
- Abel Gance
- Starring
- Albert Dieudonné Gina Manès Antonin Artaud Edmond Van Daële
- Cinematography
- Jules Kruger
- Edited by
- Marguerite Beaugé (1927)
- Music by
- Arthur Honegger (France) Werner Heymann (Germany)
- Distributed by
- Pathé-Nathan
- Release date
- 7 April 1927 ( 1927-04-07 )
- Running time
- 562 minutes ( see below )
- Country
- France
- Language
- Silent film with intertitles
- Box office
- $2.5 million (1981 reissue)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- silent film
- Part of
- Vatican's list of films
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Director
- Abel Gance
- Screenwriter
- Abel Gance
- Cast member
- René Jeanne
- Composer
- Arthur Honegger
- Producer
- Abel Gance
- Cinematographer
- Jules Kruger
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Duration
- 330
- FilmAffinity ID
- 363444
- Image
- Choumoff - Albert Dieudonné Napoleon.jpg
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- color
- black-and-white
- title
- Napoléon
- publication date
- 1929-02-17
- film editor
- Abel Gance
- distributed by
- Gaumont
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- Commons category
- Napoléon (1927 film)
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 9.6/10
- characters
- Jean-Charles Pichegru
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Encyclopedic overview
Napoléon (on-screen title: Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance") is a 1927 French silent epic historical film, produced and directed by Abel Gance, that tells the story of Napoleon's early years.
The only film to use Polyvision (for the finale), it 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Napoléon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.