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Napoléon

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Napoléon
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3hrs 55min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1927
Director:
Abel Gance
Distributor:
Universal
Starring:
Albert Dieudonné, Abel Gance, Edmond van Daele  ...more
Synopsis: 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 Roudenko), are choreographed on a scale worthy of D.W. Griffith. The plot proper begins with Napoleon's adult years. From home ... Full Synopsis
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Wheeler Winston Dixon, AMG 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 abandon, nearly destroying the integrity of the original work. ... Full Review
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Albert Dieudonné
Napoleon Bonaparte
Abel Gance
Saint-Just
Edmond van Daele
Maximilien Robespierre
Gina Manès
Josephine de Beauhamais
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