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Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the Napoleonic Code, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for his role in the wars led against France by a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars. He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time and his campaigns are studied at military academies throughout much of the world.
Napoleon was born in Corsica to parents of noble Genoese ancestry, and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France. He rose to prominence under the French First Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars—involving every major European power.
Actors: Jonah Hill (actor), Ed Helms (actor), Bill Hader (actor), Brad Garrett (actor), Robert Ben Garant (actor), Christopher Guest (actor), Ricky Gervais (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Jay Baruchel (actor), Don Abernathy (actor), Steve Coogan (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), George Foreman (actor), Alain Chabat (actor), Jonah Hill (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy,Actors: Lew Ayres (actor), Alexander Granach (actor), John Barrymore (actor), Charles Bickford (actor), Lionel Barrymore (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), Clarence Brown (actor), Monta Bell (actor), Ricardo Cortez (actor), George Cukor (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), Melvyn Douglas (actor), Clark Gable (actor), John Gilbert (actor), James Karen (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Jerzy Trela (actor), Andrzej Seweryn (actor), Sergey Shakurov (actor), Wladyslaw Kowalski (actor), Boguslaw Linda (actor), Andrzej Szenajch (actor), Daniel Olbrychski (actor), Krzysztof Globisz (actor), Lech Dyblik (actor), Krzysztof Kolberger (actor), Jerzy Binczycki (actor), Andrzej Lapicki (actor), Marek Kondrat (actor), Grazyna Szapolowska (actress), Miroslaw Zbrojewicz (actor),
Plot: In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.
Keywords: 1810s, 19th-century, based-on-novel, battle, invasion, lithuania, napoleon-bonaparte, poland, year-1811, year-1812Actors: Claude Jade (actress), Carl Davis (composer), Laurent Terzieff (actor), Rufus (actor), Jean Yanne (actor), André Penvern (actor), Bernard La Jarrige (actor), Daniel Mesguich (actor), Claude Brosset (actor), Jean Desailly (actor), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Philippe Laudenbach (actor), Victor Garrivier (actor), Georges Klotz (editor), Marie Matheron (actress),
Plot: 1816. Après Waterloo, Louis XVIII se réinstalle sur le trône de France. De Rochefort part pour le Sénégal la frégate "La Méduse", sous les ordres du commandant Chaumareys, avec à son bord le futur gouverneur du Sénégal, Schmaltz, accompagné de sa femme Reine et de leur fille. Très vite le climat de cette expédition officielle se charge de soupcon et de haine. Des tensions entre Chaumareys et le lieutenant Coudein sont discernables. L'autoritisme irrationnel de Chaumareys provoquèrent l'échouage de "La Méduse". L'evacuatio des passgers privilegés, dont Chaumareys, Schmaltz et sa famille, prirent place sur canots de sauvetage; alors que quarante marins et soldats s'entassèrent sur un radeau.... Au bout de quatorze jours, quand le radeau fut repéré par une frégate, il ne restait plus que quatorze rescapés à bord.
Keywords: cannibalism, catastrophe, corpse, fear, france, french-republic, king-louis-xviii, lifeboat, napoleon-bonaparte, painterActors: Didier Flamand (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Daniel Langlet (actor), Ronald Guttman (actor), Roland Blanche (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Jean-Jacques Moreau (actor), Jean Barney (actor), François Berléand (actor), Georges Claisse (actor), Isabelle Petit-Jacques (actress), Eugeniusz Korczarowski (actor), Jerzy Gudejko (actor), Catriona MacColl (actress), Maria Gladkowska (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Alan Napier (actor), Cameron Mitchell (actor), Lester Matthews (actor), Richard Deacon (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Colin Kenny (actor), David Leonard (actor), Richard Garrick (actor), Marlon Brando (actor), Jack George (actor), Harry Carter (actor), A. Cameron Grant (actor), John Hoyt (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Joe Ploski (actor),
Plot: In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Keywords: 18th-century, ambition, arranged-marriage, atmosphere, balls, based-on-book, bridge, character-name-in-title, childlessness, citizenshipActors: Miles Malleson (writer), Herbert Wilcox (producer), David Farrar (actor), Laurence Hanray (actor), Jack Hawkins (actor), Jack Raymond (director), Allan Jeayes (actor), John Laurie (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Pierre Blanchar (actor), Frank Cellier (actor), Julian Somers (actor), George Curzon (actor), Ruth Chatterton (actress), Anthony Collins (composer),
Plot: The love affair between the Frence Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Carlo Campogalliani (actor), Oreste Grandi (actor), Armand Pouget (actor), Arturo Ambrosio (producer), Edoardo Bencivenga (director), Umberto Scalpellini (actor), Vittorio Tettoni (actor), Eugenia Tettoni Fior (actress), Antonio Grisanti (actor), Giulietta De Riso (actress), Annetta Ripamonti (actress), Bianca Schinini (actress), Matilde Granillo (actress),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Enrico Guazzoni (director), Achille Majeroni (actor), Amleto Novelli (actor), Ida Carloni Talli (actress), Pina Menichelli (actress), Enrico Guazzoni (writer), Gianna Terribili-Gonzales (actress), Carlo Cattaneo (actor), Totò Majorana (actor), Raffaele Vinci (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ernest G. Batley (actor), George Foley (actor), Charles Weston (director), William Barker (producer), Vivian Ross (actor),
Genres: Short, War,