Napoleon (1955)
Drama
History
War
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Cast
Napoléon Bonaparte
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Eléonore Denuelle
Marshal Michel Ney
Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Karl von Metternich
Marshal Jean Lannes
Elisa Baccioli
Emilie Pellapra
Count Montholon
Marie Walewska
Garat
Old Napoléon Bonaparte
Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Lefebvre
Madame Sans-Gêne
Marquis de Caulaincourt
Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
Lucien Bonaparte
Désirée Clary
General Cambronne
Marie-Louise d'Autriche
Ludwig van Beethoven
Talleyrand
Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Marshal Joachim Murat
Sir Hudson Lowe
Count of Blanc-Mesnil
Louis XVIII
An innkeeper
Laetitia
General Gourgaud
Count Joseph Fouché
Bourrienne (uncredited)
Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Louis XV (uncredited)
Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Cambacérès (uncredited)
Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
General Bertrand (uncredited)
Madame Tallien (uncredited)
Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Madame de Dino
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)
Neipperg
Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Barras
Pauline Borghese
General Duroc
Crew
Writer
Director
Producer
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography