Abel Gance's original 1927 masterpiece is a must-see for not only silent-film buffs, but for all interested in classic world cinema. You are taken from the future emperor's first strategic victory, a schoolyard snowball fight, to the climactic invasion of Italy. Thought lost, the presentation of Napoleon was the result of many years of labour and co-operation between The Images Film Archive, The British Film Institute, Abel Gance, Claude Lelouch and finally Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios. With the support of Zoetrope, Napoleon could be properly presented with a new original symphonic score specially composed and conducted by Carmine Coppola at Radio City Music Hall.
Directed by
Abel Gance
Written by
Abel Gance
Starring
Albert Dieudonné (Napoléon Bonaparte); Vladimir Roudenko (Napoléon Bonaparte enfant); Edmond Van Daële (Maximilien Robespierre); Alexandre Koubitzky (Danton); Antonin Artaud (Marat); Abel Gance (Louis Saint-Just); Gina Manès (Joséphine de Beauharnais); Suzanne Bianchetti (Marie-Antoinette); Marguerite Gance (Charlotte Corday); Yvette Dieudonné (Élisa Bonaparte); Philippe Hériat (Antonio Salicetti); Pierre Batcheff (Le général Lazare Hoche); Eugénie Buffet (Laetizia Bonaparte); Acho Chakatouny (Pozzo di Borgo); Nicolas Koline (Tristan Fleuri). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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