Napoleon
25/03/1955
3h 10m



The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Cast


Daniel Gélin
Napoléon Bonaparte


Michèle Morgan
Joséphine de Beauharnais


Raymond Pellegrin
Old Napoléon Bonaparte


Sacha Guitry
Talleyrand


Jean-Pierre Aumont
Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely


Jeanne Boitel
Madame de Dino


Gilbert Bokanowski
Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)


Pierre Brasseur
Barras


Gianna Maria Canale
Pauline Borghese


Jean Chevrier
General Duroc


Danielle Darrieux
Eléonore Denuelle


Clément Duhour
Marshal Michel Ney


Jacques Dumesnil
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte


O.W. Fischer
Karl von Metternich


Jean Gabin
Marshal Jean Lannes


Cosetta Greco
Elisa Baccioli


Madeleine Lebeau
Emilie Pellapra


Jean Marais
Count Montholon


Lana Marconi
Marie Walewska


Luis Mariano
Garat


Armand Mestral
Marshal Nicolas Oudinot


Yves Montand
Lefebvre


Patachou
Madame Sans-Gêne


Roger Pigaut
Marquis de Caulaincourt


Micheline Presle
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais


Serge Reggiani
Lucien Bonaparte


Dany Robin
Désirée Clary


Noël Roquevert
General Cambronne


Maria Schell
Marie-Louise d'Autriche


Erich von Stroheim
Ludwig van Beethoven


Maurice Teynac
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases


Henri Vidal
Marshal Joachim Murat


Orson Welles
Sir Hudson Lowe


Roland Alexandre
Count of Blanc-Mesnil


Lucien Baroux
Louis XVIII


Pauline Carton
An innkeeper


Michèle Cordoue
Laetitia


Jean Danet
General Gourgaud


Jean Debucourt
Count Joseph Fouché


Bernard Dhéran
Bourrienne (uncredited)


Maurice Escande
Louis XV (uncredited)


Maria Favella
Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)


Gilbert Gil
Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)


Daniel Ivernel
Cambacérès (uncredited)


Marie Mansart
Madame Bertrand (uncredited)


Robert Manuel
Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)


Jean Marchat
General Bertrand (uncredited)


Nicole Maurey
Madame Tallien (uncredited)


Anne Carrère
Madame Hamelin (uncredited)


Dora Doll
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)


Louis de Funès
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Pierre Would
Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)


Paul Dupuis
Neipperg
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