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.
Cast
Albert Dieudonné
Napoléon Bonaparte
Nicolas Roudenko
Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)
Edmond van Daële
Maximilien Robespierre
Alexandre Koubitzky
Georges Jacques Danton
Antonin Artaud
Jean-Paul Marat
Abel Gance
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
Gina Manès
Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais
Nicolas Koline
Tristan Fleury
Annabella
Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Marguerite Gance
Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonné
Élisa Bonaparte
Eugénie Buffet
Letizia Bonaparte
Maurice Schutz
Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli
Philippe Hériat
Antoine Christophe Saliceti
Acho Chakatouny
Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
Louis Sance
King Louis XVI of France
Suzanne Bianchetti
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Georges Cahuzac
Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais
Max Maxudian
Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
Harry Krimer
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Francine Mussey
Anne Lucile Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis
Robert Vidalin
Camille Desmoulins
Henri Baudin
Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd
Daniel Buiret
Augustin Robespierre
Adrien Caillard
Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord
Roger Blum
François-Joseph Talma
Pierre Batcheff
General Louis Lazare Hoche
Alex Bernard
General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Carrie Carvalho
The Seer
Sylvio Cavicchia
Lucien Bonaparte (Adult)
Léon Courtois
General Jean François Carteaux
Damia
La Marseillaise
Pierre de Canolle
Auguste de Marmont
Gilbert Dacheux
Jean-Pierre du Teil
Pierre Danis
Colonel Jean-Baptiste Muiron
W. Percy Day
Captain Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Boris de Fast
The Green Eye
Guy Favières
Joseph Fouché
Serge Freddy-Karl
The Small Drum Marcellin Fleury
Jean Gaudrey
Jean-Lambert Tallien
Simone Genevois
Pauline Bonaparte
Georges Hénin
Eugène Rose from Beauharnais
Jean Henry
Sergeant Jean-Andoche Junot
Henry Krauss
Moustache
Georges Lampin
Joseph Bonaparte
Alexandre Mathillon
General Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer
Genica Missirio
Joachim Murat
Jeanne Pen
Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais
Roblin
Picot de Peccaduc
Jack Rye
Charles O'Hara
Andrée Standart
Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien
Suzy Vernon
Madame Juliette Récamier
Petit Vidal
Pierre Philippeaux
Louis Vonelly
Poet André Marie Chénier
Jean d'Yd
La Bussière
René Jeanne
Professor at Brienne
Philippe Rolla
André Masséna
François Viguier
Georges Auguste Couthon
Grégoire Metchnikoff
Charles Pierre François Augereau
Pierrette Lugand
Caroline Bonaparte
Roger Chantal
Jérôme Bonaparte
Jean Rauzena
Louis Bonaparte
Henri Beaulieu
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Daniel Mendaille
Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron
Paul Amiot
Antoine Fouquier-Tinville
Georgette Sorelle
Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de France, Madame Élisabeth
Mony Thomassin
Marie-Thérèse de France, Madame Royale
Lise Carvalho
Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Lenormand
Florence Talma
Louise Sébastienne Danton, born Gély
Noëlle Mattô
Albertine Marat
Henry Bonvallet
General Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay
Raphaël Lievin
Fabre d'Églantine
Conrad Veidt
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Camille Beuve
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
Olaf Fjord
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte
Crew
Galvin
Shoe Design
Abel Gance
Director, Writer, Editor
Henriette Pinson
Assistant Editor
Marguerite Beaugé
Assistant Editor
Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Director of Photography, Additional Photography
Jules Kruger
Director of Photography
Nikolai Toporkoff
Director of Photography
Léonce-Henri Burel
Director of Photography, Additional Photography
Henri Andréani
Assistant Director
Viktor Tourjansky
Assistant Director
Pierre Danis
Assistant Director
Jean Mitry
Assistant Director
Henry Krauss
Assistant Director
Mario Nalpas
Assistant Director
Alexandre Volkoff
Assistant Director
Georges Lampin
Assistant Director
Sacher Purnal
Assistant Director
Jean Arroy
Assistant Director
Anatole Litvak
Assistant Director
Henry de Cazotte
Producer
Hugo Stinnes
Producer
Wengeroff
Producer
Paul Briquet
Camera Operator
Lee Planskoy
Camera Operator
Marcel Eywinger
Camera Operator, Additional Photography
Fédote Bourgasoff
Camera Operator
Monniot
Camera Operator
Louis Osmont
Casting, Unit Production Manager
Mme. Augris
Costume Design
Sauvageau
Costume Design
Georges Charmy
Costume Design
Mme. Neminsky
Costume Design
Jeanne Lanvin
Costume Design
Wladimir Kwanine
Makeup Artist
Boris de Fast
Makeup Artist
Vladimir Meingard
Assistant Art Director
Serge Piménoff
Assistant Art Director
Edward Scholl
Special Effects
Segundo de Chomón
Special Effects
Eugen Schüfftan
Special Effects, Visual Effects Supervisor
Paul Minine
Special Effects
Nicolas Wilcke
Special Effects, Prop Maker
Arthur Honegger
Original Music Composer
W. Percy Day
Painter
Simone Surdieux
Script Supervisor
Simon Feldman
Technical Supervisor
Henri Berryer
Electrician
Roger Hubert
Additional Photography
Émile Pierre
Additional Photography
Georges Lucas
Additional Photography
Albinet
Gaffer
Graza
Gaffer
Doublon
Gaffer
Edouard de Bersaucourt
Production Manager
Noë Bloch
Production Manager
Constantin Geftman
Unit Manager
William Delafontaine
Unit Manager
Rene Rufly
Unit Manager
Alexandre Benois
Art Direction
Alexandre Lochakoff
Art Direction
Eugène Lourié
Art Direction
Georges Jacouty
Art Direction
Pierre Schild
Art Direction
Lemirt
Armorer
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