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NAPOLÉON
(1927)
List of alternative names
- BONAPARTE ET LA REVOLUTION
- NAPOLEON VU PAR ABEL GANCE
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- 1925
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- France
- Notes
- Film restored with previously omitted footage by Kevin Brownlow in 1980 (290 mins), 1983, and 2000 (331 mins). See Brownlow interview from 2004 on bfi website. US version from 1982 by F.F. Coppola's Zoetrope company also released.
Library Synopsis
Widescreen biography of Napoleon Bonaparte from his youth to his death. [The film has always existed in several versions with running times varying from 75 minutes to over 5 hours. It was made in Polyvision, although some versions were without Polyvision. Gance himself did several re-editions of the film. See also NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1934) and BONAPARTE...
Library Synopsis
Widescreen biography of Napoleon Bonaparte from his youth to his death. [The film has always existed in several versions with running times varying from 75 minutes to over 5 hours. It was made in Polyvision, although some versions were without Polyvision. Gance himself did several re-editions of the film. See also NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (1934) and BONAPARTE...
Top five credits
- Director
- GANCE, Abel
- Production Company
- Films Historiques
- Production Company
- Westi
- Production Company
- Societe Generale Des Films
- Collaborator
- CHOMÓN, Segundo de
Top five cast
- Letizia Bonaparte
- BUFFET, Eugénie
- Violine Fleuri
- ANABELLA
- Joséphine de Beauharnais
- MANÈS, Gina
- Bonaparte
- DIEUDONNÉ, Albert
- Young Bonaparte
- ROUDENKO, Vladimir