Napol
Summary:
The chef d'ouevre of legendary French filmmaker Abel Gance, the 235-minute Napoleon was supposed to have been the first installment in a multipart film study of the French military hero. Each of the film's set pieces is treated like a movie in itself: the opening pillow fights and snowball battles, staged while Napoleon is still a schoolboy (played by Russian youth Vladimir Ro... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Albert Dieudonné - (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Abel Gance - (Saint-Just)
Edmond van Daele - (Maximilien Robespierre)
Gina Manès - (Josephine de Beauhamais)
Annabella - (Violine Fleuri)
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Review:
Abel Gance's multi-camera, multi-projector masterpiece has been through so many versions that it's almost impossible to know where to start. Originally completed in 1927, the film was then shot and re-shot, with new material in sound in the '30s and '50s, and issued in a variety of versions that mixed old and new material with disconcerting aban... Continue >>
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