Film record

Napoléon

1927Feature film330 minVerification: Verified

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Production countries
Italy · Germany · France
Languages
French
Genres
drama film · biographical film · silent film

Credits

Cinematography

Jules Kruger — Cinematography
Georges Meyer — Cinematography
Léonce-Henri Burel — Cinematography

Direction

Abel Gance — Directing

Editing

Abel Gance — Editing

Music

Arthur Honegger — Music composition

Cast

Albert Dieudonné — Acting (Napoléon Bonaparte)
Gina Manès — Acting (Joséphine)
Antonin Artaud — Acting (Marat)
Edmond Van Daële — Acting (Maximilien Robespierre)
Abel Gance — Acting (Saint-Just)
Suzanne Bianchetti — Acting (Marie-Antoinette)
Pierre Batcheff — Acting (Lazare Hoche)
Nikolay Kolin — Acting (Tristan Fleury)
Annabella — Acting (Violine Fleury)
Eugénie Buffet — Acting (Letizia Bonaparte)
Acho Chakatouny — Acting (Pozzo di Borgo)
Adrien Caillard — Acting
Armand Bernard — Acting (Jean-Jean)
Armand Lurville — Acting
Blanche Beaume — Acting (la servante de Marat)
Conrad Veidt — Acting (le marquis de Sade)
Marie-Louise Damien — Acting (La Marseillaise)
Daniel Mendaille — Acting (Fréron)
Edy Debray — Acting
Ernest Maupain — Acting
Francine Mussey — Acting (Lucile Desmoulins)
François Viguier — Acting (Georges Couthon)
Georges Cahuzac — Acting (le vicomte Alexandre de Beauharnais)
Georges Lampin — Acting (Joseph Bonaparte)
Georges Paulais — Acting
Georgette Sorelle — Acting (Madame Élisabeth)
Guy Favières — Acting (Joseph Fouché)
Henri Baudin — Acting (Santo Ricci)
Henri Beaulieu — Acting (Beaumarchais)
Henry Bonvallet — Acting (le général Menou)
Henry Krauss — Acting (le capitaine Moustache)
Jane Marken — Acting
Jean d'Yd — Acting (La Bussière)
Jean Tissier — Acting
Laurent Morléas — Acting
Léo Courtois — Acting (Carteaux)
Léon Larive — Acting
Louis Vonelly — Acting (André Chénier)
Marcel Delaître — Acting (Capucine)
Marcel Pérès — Acting
Maurice Schutz — Acting (Pascal Paoli)
Max Maxudian — Acting (Paul Barras)
Olaf Fjord — Acting (le capitaine Horatio Nelson)
Paul Amiot — Acting (Fouquier-Tinville)
Philippe Hériat — Acting (Christophe Saliceti)
Philippe Rolla — Acting (Masséna)
Rivers Cadet — Acting
Robert Arnoux — Acting
Robert Vidalin — Acting (Camille Desmoulins)
Roger Blin — Acting (Calmelet)
Simone Genevois — Acting (Pauline Bonaparte)
Suzy Vernon — Acting (Madame Récamier)
Vladimir Sokoloff — Acting (Tristan Fleury)
André Cerf — Acting
Camille Beuve — Acting (le docteur Guillotin)
Fabien Haziza — Acting
Sylvie Gance — Acting (Théroigne de Méricourt)
Joë Hamman — Acting
Harry Krimer — Acting (Rouget de Lisle)
Alexandre Koubitzky — Acting (Danton)
Louis Sance — Acting (Louis XVI)
Nicolas Roudenko — Acting (Napoléon Bonaparte enfant)
Grégoire Metchnikoff — Acting (Augereau)
Pierre Danis — Acting (Muiron)
Roger Blum — Acting (Talma)
Sylvio Cavicchia — Acting (Lucien Bonaparte)
Marguerite Gance — Acting (Charlotte Corday)
Jean Henry — Acting (Junot)
Genica Missirio — Acting (Murat)
Yvette Dieudonné — Acting (Élisa Bonaparte)
Pierrette Lugand — Acting (Caroline Bonaparte)
Andrée Standard — Acting (Madame Tallien)
Mony Thomassin — Acting (Madame Royale)
Lise Carvalho — Acting (Mademoiselle Lenormand)
Janine Pen — Acting (Hortense de Beauharnais)
Robert de Ansorena — Acting (le capitaine Desaix)
Alex Bernard — Acting (Collot d'Herbois)
Raphaël Liévin — Acting (Fabre d'Églantine)
Roger Chantal — Acting (Jérôme Bonaparte)
Jean Rauzéna — Acting (Louis Bonaparte)
Walter Percy Day — Acting (l’amiral Samuel Hood)
Jean Jacquinet — Acting
José Squinquel — Acting (Stendhal)
René Jeanne — Acting (Jean-Charles Pichegru)

Production

Abel Gance — Production

Writing

Abel Gance — Screenwriting
Documented participation

Film companies and organizations

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Distribution

Gaumont

International
Verified

Versions and cuts

No versions have been documented yet.

Releases by territory

France · Original release
7 Apr 1927Checked 2 Oct 2026
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