Director : Abel Gance
Release Date : 9 May 1935 (France)
Genre : Biography, Drama
Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Albert Dieudonné as Napoleon Bonaparte, Gina Manès as Josephine de Beauharnais, Annabella as Violine Fleuri, Antonin Artaud as Marat, Abel Gance as Saint-Just, Alexandre Koubitzky as Danton, Edmond Van Daële as Robespierre rest of cast listed alphabetically: , Albert Alberty as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paul Amiot as Antoine Quentin Fouqier de Tinville dit Fouquier-Tinville, Pierre Batcheff as Hoche, Henri Baudin as Santo Ricci, Alexandre Bernard as Dugommier, Suzanne Bianchetti as Marie-Antoinette, Roger Blum as Talma, Boudréau as La Fayette, Eugénie Buffet as Laetitia Bonaparte, Rivers Cadet, Mlle. Carvalho as Mlle. Lenormand, Cathelat, Sylvio Cavicchia as Lucien Bonaparte, Acho Chakatouny as Pozzo di Borgo, Damia as La ‘Marsellaise’, Noël Darzal as Desmoulins, Eddy Debray, Marcel Delaître as Capucine, Marguerite Gance as Charlotte Corday, Sylvie Gance as Marjolaine / Throigne de Mricourt (as Marjolaine), Philippe Hériat as Salicetti, Claude Ivane, Nicolas Koline as Tristan Fleuri, Harry Krimer as Rouget de l’Isle, Georges Lampin as Joseph Bonaparte, Armand Lurville, Jane Marken as Marie-Anne, Georges Mauloy as Crécy, Max Maxudian as Barras, Daniel Mendaille as Feron, Pierre Mindaist as Drapelin (as Mindaist), Pierre Morin as Branger, Georges Paulais as Vergniaud, Philippe Rolla as Massena, Jack Rye as Louis XVI, Joseph Squinquel as Stendhal, Gaby Triquet, Henri Valbel as Barrère (as Valbel), Suzy Vernon as Madame Récamier, Robert Vidalin as Camille Desmoulins
Plot : A re-edited version of Abel Gance’s passive masterpiece ‘Napoleon (1927 )’ , also capable of being trusted effects added… more |
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