Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)

Note des utilisateurs:

8.8/10   

Réalisateur:

Abel Gance

Writers:

Abel Gance (dialogue)
Abel Gance (screenplay)

Release Date:

9 mai 1935 (France)

Genre:

Biographie | Drame

Plot:

A re-edited version of Abel Gance's silent masterpiece 'Napoleon (1927 )' , with sound effects added...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Character Name In Title

Avis des utilisateurs:

Great film given voices

Ensemble

Albert Dieudonné	...	Napoleon Bonaparte
Gina Manès	...	Josephine de Beauharnais
Annabella	...	Violine Fleuri
Antonin Artaud	...	Marat
Abel Gance	...	Saint-Just
Alexandre Koubitzky	...	Danton
Edmond Van Daële	...	Robespierre
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Albert Alberty	...	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Paul Amiot	...	Antoine Quentin Fouqier de Tinville dit Fouquier-Tinville
Pierre Batcheff	...	Hoche
Henri Baudin	...	Santo Ricci
Alexandre Bernard	...	Dugommier
Suzanne Bianchetti	...	Marie-Antoinette
Roger Blum	...	Talma
Boudréau	...	La Fayette
Eugénie Buffet	...	Laetitia Bonaparte
Rivers Cadet
Mlle. Carvalho	...	Mlle. Lenormand
Cathelat
Sylvio Cavicchia	...	Lucien Bonaparte
Acho Chakatouny	...	Pozzo di Borgo
Damia	...	La 'Marsellaise'
Noël Darzal	...	Desmoulins
Eddy Debray
Marcel Delaître	...	Capucine
Marguerite Gance	...	Charlotte Corday
Sylvie Gance	...	Marjolaine / Throigne de Mricourt (as Marjolaine)
Philippe Hériat	...	Salicetti
Claude Ivane
Nicolas Koline	...	Tristan Fleuri
Harry Krimer	...	Rouget de l'Isle
Georges Lampin	...	Joseph Bonaparte
Armand Lurville
Jane Marken	...	Marie-Anne
Georges Mauloy	...	Crécy
Max Maxudian	...	Barras
Daniel Mendaille	...	Feron
Pierre Mindaist	...	Drapelin (as Mindaist)
Pierre Morin	...	Branger
Georges Paulais	...	Vergniaud
Philippe Rolla	...	Massena
Jack Rye	...	Louis XVI
Joseph Squinquel	...	Stendhal
Gaby Triquet
Henri Valbel	...	Barrère (as Valbel)
Suzy Vernon	...	Madame Récamier
Robert Vidalin	...	Camille Desmoulins

Autre(s) titre(s):

Napoléon
Napoléon Bonaparte, vu et entendu par Abel Gance (France) (short title)

Durée:

140 min | Finland:60 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono | Stereo (original presentation)

Classification:

France:U

Company:

Majestic Films

Anecdotes:

Although the soundtrack to this 1934 release is sometimes called stereophonic, Daniel J. Sherlock writes, "The use by Abel Gance of 'stereophonic' sound in the 1930s was actually a process where notches in the film would trigger a sequencer that would turn on and off various surround speakers for enhanced dramatic effects. All speakers were driven by the same monophonic soundtrack."

Movie Connections:

Edited into Bonaparte et la révolution (1971)

Great film given voices

Abel Gance's masterpiece, Napoleon, was made in 1927 - towards the end of the silent film era. It is over five hours long, and some sections require three synchronized projectors and three screens for theatrical presentation. I saw it many years ago in the last San Francisco theater equipped to show it as intended, with Paul Honegger's original score played on a giant theater organ which could simulate the sounds of an entire orchestra (including drums). The only videotape edition (which I have), released by Coppola in 1989 with a score by his father, is long out of print, and a DVD issue is reportedly prevented by legal complications. But Gance's 1934 re-edit would make a perfect DVD. It would easily fit on one disk, is designed for a single screen, and has voices dubbed in by the original actors. The lip synch is perfect, because Gance made the actors in the silent version speak their lines (perhaps anticipating the advent of sound). While we can hope that the 1927 version eventually makes it to DVD, the 1934 film stands on its own as one of the greatest historical films ever made.