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Status
Released
Release
1972
Runtime
4h 35m
Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this version.
13 Cast Members
Albert Dieudonné
Napoléon Bonaparte (archive footage)
Annabella
Violene (archive footage)
Antonin Artaud
Marat (archive footage)
Pierre Batcheff
Hoche (archive footage)
Eugénie Buffet
Laetitia (archive footage)
Abel Gance
St. Just (archive footage)
Philippe Hériat
Salicetti (archive footage)
Nicolas Koline
Tristan (archive footage)
Alexandre Koubitzky
Danton (archive footage)
Gina Manès
Joséphine de Beauharnais (archive footage)
Jean Topart
Narrator (voice)
Edmond van Daële
Robespierre (archive footage)
Nicolas Roudenko
Napoléon Bonaparte (child) (archive footage)
