
250 minutes
1/10/1927
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Albert Dieudonné
as Napoléon Bonaparte

Nicolas Roudenko
as Napoléon Bonaparte (Child)

Edmond van Daële
as Maximilien Robespierre

Alexandre Koubitzky
as Georges Jacques Danton

Antonin Artaud
as Jean-Paul Marat

Abel Gance
as Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just

Gina Manès
as Joséphine, Viscountess of Beauharnais

Nicolas Koline
as Tristan Fleury

Annabella
as Violine Fleury / Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Marguerite Gance
as Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonné
as Élisa Bonaparte
Eugénie Buffet
as Letizia Bonaparte

Maurice Schutz
as Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli

Philippe Hériat
as Antoine Christophe Saliceti

Acho Chakatouny
as Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
Louis Sance
as King Louis XVI of France

Suzanne Bianchetti
as Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Georges Cahuzac
as Alexandre, Viscount of Beauharnais

Max Maxudian
as Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras

Harry Krimer
as Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Francine Mussey
as Anne Lucile Philippe Desmoulins, born Laridon-Duplessis
Robert Vidalin
as Camille Desmoulins

Henri Baudin
as Santo-Ricci - Corsican Shepherd
Daniel Buiret
as Augustin Robespierre

Adrien Caillard
as Thomas Gasparin / Jean François Ricord
Roger Blum
as François-Joseph Talma

Pierre Batcheff
as General Louis Lazare Hoche

Alex Bernard
as General Jacques François Dugommier / Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
Carrie Carvalho
as The Seer
Sylvio Cavicchia
as Lucien Bonaparte (Adult)

Léon Courtois
as General Jean François Carteaux

Damia
as La Marseillaise
Pierre de Canolle
as Auguste de Marmont
Gilbert Dacheux
as Jean-Pierre du Teil
Pierre Danis
as Colonel Jean-Baptiste Muiron
W. Percy Day
as Captain Louis Charles Antoine Desaix

Boris de Fast
as The Green Eye

Guy Favières
as Joseph Fouché
Serge Freddy-Karl
as The Small Drum Marcellin Fleury
Jean Gaudrey
as Jean-Lambert Tallien

Simone Genevois
as Pauline Bonaparte
Georges Hénin
as Eugène Rose from Beauharnais
Jean Henry
as Sergeant Jean-Andoche Junot

Henry Krauss
as Moustache
Georges Lampin
as Joseph Bonaparte
Alexandre Mathillon
as General Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer

Genica Missirio
as Joachim Murat
Jeanne Pen
as Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais
Roblin
as Picot de Peccaduc
Jack Rye
as Charles O'Hara

Andrée Standart
as Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien

Suzy Vernon
as Madame Juliette Récamier
Petit Vidal
as Pierre Philippeaux

Louis Vonelly
as Poet André Marie Chénier

Jean d'Yd
as La Bussière
René Jeanne
as Professor at Brienne
Philippe Rolla
as André Masséna

François Viguier
as Georges Auguste Couthon
Grégoire Metchnikoff
as Charles Pierre François Augereau
Pierrette Lugand
as Caroline Bonaparte
Roger Chantal
as Jérôme Bonaparte
Jean Rauzena
as Louis Bonaparte
Henri Beaulieu
as Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Daniel Mendaille
as Louis Marie Stanislas Fréron

Paul Amiot
as Antoine Fouquier-Tinville

Georgette Sorelle
as Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de France, Madame Élisabeth
Mony Thomassin
as Marie-Thérèse de France, Madame Royale
Lise Carvalho
as Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Lenormand
Florence Talma
as Louise Sébastienne Danton, born Gély
Noëlle Mattô
as Albertine Marat

Henry Bonvallet
as General Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay

Raphaël Lievin
as Fabre d'Églantine

Conrad Veidt
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade

Camille Beuve
as Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
W. Percy Day
as Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

Olaf Fjord
as Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte