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A massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), 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 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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Annabella
Violine Fleuri and Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary
Maurice Schutz
Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli
Suzy Vernon
Madame Juliette Récamier
Antonin Artaud
Jean-Paul Marat
Harry Krimer
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Boris de Fast
The Green Eye
Suzanne Bianchetti
Queen Marie-Antoinette of France
Georges Cahuzac
Viscount of Beauharnais
Albert Dieudonné
Napoléon Bonaparte
Acho Chakatouny
Count Charles-André Pozzo of Borgo
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