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Napoléon. (1927 film) Napoléon is a 1927 French silent epic historical film, produced, and directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of Napoleon 's early years. It is also the only film to use Polyvision (for the finale). On screen, the title is Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, meaning "Napoleon as seen by Abel Gance".
Napoleon: Directed by Abel Gance. With Albert Dieudonné, Nicolas Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky. A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Abel Gance
- 1929-02-17
Sep 23, 2016 · Abel Gance's legendary silent epic, digitally restored with a newly recorded score by Carl Davis, hits cinemas nationwide from 11 November 2016 #BFINapoleonW...
- 2 min
- 701.8K
- BFI
Synopsis. 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.
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- Société Westi
- Abel Gance
This epic silent film, which was shown first in Paris in 1927 with Charles De Gaulle sitting attentively in the audience, very nearly was lost forever. Made just at the end of the silent film era, it was hailed as a masterpiece but dismissed by exhibitors as too long, too impractical to be shown. It was cut into shorter versions by Abel Gance ...
Ever since the film was first seen, Gance's Napoléon has been hailed as one of the landmarks in cinema history, a film of breathtaking vision and extraordinary cinematographic bravura. The impressionistic tropes that Gance had employed on earlier films are used to their fullest effect to create a cinema experience that was unrivalled in its day and still packs an almighty punch today.
Napoléon (1927) Abel Gance’s heroic depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an undisputed cinema landmark. Famed for its groundbreaking technical innovations – including its famous triptych finale – and a running time of 5 ½ hours, Abel Gance’s epic traverses many of the formative experiences that shaped Napoleon’s rapid ...
