"Napoleon" ( French Napoleon ) - French historical cinema epic of Abel Hans 1927 . One of the most expensive and innovative projects of the silent movie era, however, did not have commercial success [1] .
| Napoleon | |
|---|---|
| Napoléon | |
 | |
| Genre | biography film movie avant-garde |
| Producer | Abel Hans |
| Producer | |
| Author script | Abel Hans |
| In the main cast | Albert Dieudonne Gina manes |
| Operator | Jules Krueger Leones-Henri Burelle Joseph Louis Mundwiller Nikolai Toporkov |
| Composer | Arthur Honegger |
| Film company | Films abel gance |
| Duration | 313 minutes |
| Budget | 18 million francs |
| A country |  France |
| Language | |
| Year | 1927 |
| IMDb | ID 0018192 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Artistic Features
- 4 History of creation
- 5 Additional Facts
- 6 Camera crew (optional)
- 7 Notes
- 8 Literature
- 9 References
Story
The script written by Hans corresponded so little with historical facts that, anticipating complaints from historians, he made a reservation in the opening credits - "Napoleon, as A. Hans saw him."
Cast
- Albert Dieudonne - Napoleon Bonaparte
- Vladimir Rudenko - Napoleon Bonaparte (child)
- Edmond Van Dayol - Maximilian Robespierre
- Alexander Kubitsky - Georges Danton
- Antonin Artaud - Jean-Paul Marat
- Abel Hans - Louis Saint-Just
- Gina Manes - Josephine Beauharnais
- Susanna Bianchetti - Marie Antoinette ,
- Margarita Ganset - Charlotte Corde
- Yvette Dieudonne - Eliza Bonaparte
- Jean d'Id - Lababier
Artistic Features
The film was the first in the world shot using the technology of panoramic cinema simultaneously on three films [2] . Chest mounts were used on the shoots, a flying camera enclosed in a soccer ball, mass scenes were organized, magnificent scenery were built and a triple screen was used to show the final episodes of the film — the entry of Napoleonic troops into Lombardy [3] .
Creation History
In preparation for the filming of Napoleon, Abel Hans read more than three hundred books: Bonaparte's memoirs, books by Louis Adolphe Thiers , Jules Michelet , Frederic Masson , Stendhal , Eli Faure [4] .
In 1923, the founder of the Vesti concern, a businessman of Russian origin Wenger, proposed to Abel Hans to make a film in Berlin . Hans replied: "I will shoot" Napoleon "only in France." Then Vengerov created the "international syndicate", which included the company " Pate " [4] .
At the end of 1924 the script was completed, it consisted of eight episodes, three thousand meters each [4] :
- Bonaparte Youth
- Bonaparte and terror
- Italian campaign
- Egyptian Campaign and 18 Brumaire
- Sun Austerlitz
- Retreat from Russia
- Waterloo
- Saint Helena
The first two parts were removed [4] .
Later, in 1935, A. Hans released a new, sound version of the film called “Napoléon Bonaparte”.
The director considered the following candidates for the role of Napoleon: playwright Rene Foschua , chansonnier Jean Bastia , writer Pierre Bonardi , actor van Dael (played by Robespierre), Ivan Mozhuhin (refused, since he believed that only the Frenchman could create Bonaparte's image). Forty famous actors took part in the film [4] .
"Napoleon" was filmed in Briancon , Toulon , Corsica , Saint-Cloud , Brienne , Malmeson and Paris [4] .
Additional Facts
- Filming: from January 17, 1925 to September - October 1926 (break from November 1925 to May 1926)
In the film were involved [4] :
- Technical staff - 200 people of various professions
- 8000 suits
- 6000 extras
- 4000 guns
- 60 guns
- 150 scenery, a whole district of Paris was built at the beginning of the XIX century
- 4: 1 screen aspect ratio
Camera crew (optional)
- Abel Hans - director, producer, screenwriter;
- Jules Krueger , Leons-Henri Burelle , Joseph-Louis Mundwiller , Nikolai Toporkov - cameramen;
- Alexandre Benois - artist;
- Alexander Volkov - assistant director;
- Victor Turzhansky - assistant director;
- Henry Andreani - assistant director;
- Anatole Litvak - assistant director.
Notes
- ↑ Rumanovs: father and son. Interview with Daniil Rumanov
- ↑ Photokinotechnics, 1981 , p. 231.
- ↑ Sergey Komarov . Silent cinema // History of foreign cinema. - Moscow: Art, 1965. - T. 1.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I.A. Musky. 100 great foreign films. - Moscow: Veche, 2008 .-- 480 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9533-2750-3 .
Literature
- E.A. Iophis. Photokinotechnics / I. Yu. Shebalin. - M.,: “Soviet Encyclopedia”, 1981. - S. 231. - 447 p.