A masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Euro... Read allA masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe. But his life ends with a fall and exile.A masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe. But his life ends with a fall and exile.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 4 wins & 11 nominations total
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- TriviaThe series was shot simultaneously in French and English, thus two versions exist, with the exact same actors and near-identical edits, but a different original language.
- GoofsTsar Alexander and Napoleon are listening to Paganini's Caprice No. 24. However, that piece was only composed in 1817, when Napoleon was already in St. Helena.
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Napoléon: The English are calling upon my men to desert by flooding our lines with this drivel. It'll have no effect on them!
Maréchal Joachim Murat: I'm not so sure. The men have had enough. Most of the time we have to force them to obey!
Napoléon: Have the officers discipline them again. That's why they're here.
Maréchal Joachim Murat: The officers, they say that you torture your soldiers, and that you will never be able to seize Egypt.
Napoléon: I have, Murat, Egypt is ours, almost ours. Cairo is a French city. The Nile Delta has been pacified, and all there is left to subjugate a few Turkish regiments.
Maréchal Joachim Murat: Turks and Arabs, supported by the English. Be realistic, Bonaparte. We can't go on, especially with the plague on our heels.
Napoléon: The doctors assured me that the epidemic could be contained.
Maréchal Joachim Murat: The doctors can do nothing against fear.
Napoléon: I can.
- Alternate versionsShot simultaneously in French and English. For the French version, the French actors spoke in French, the rest recited their dialogues in English and were later dubbed by other actors. For the English version, the French actors repeated the same shots reciting the dialogues in English.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2003)
- SoundtracksNapoleon
Written by Richard Grégoire
Performed by Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra-Sif 309
Courtesy of Virgin Classics
Generally, if you are interested in such kind of movies and have a certain knowledge of the historical facts, "Napoléon" is absolutely recommendable. It might have some flaws, and some historical facts may be, to the normally educated, not clear, but then, it's only a TV movie. And it's really rather enjoyable, bringing a fascinating period of European history to life.
- S Bodmann
- Jan 11, 2003
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