Austerlitz (1960 film)
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Austerlitz is a 1960 French film directed by Abel Gance and starring Jean Marais, Rossano Brazzi, Martine Carol, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio De Sica, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Pierre Mondy portrays Napoleon in this film about his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz. Leslie Caron plays the role of his mistress Élisabeth Le Michaud d'Arçon.
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Synopsis
The first half of this film covers Napoleon's coronation as Emperor and political manoeuvrings while the second half covers the actual battle, where he beat both Austrian and Russian forces in his drive eastward.
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Cast
- Pierre Mondy as Napoléon Ier
- Jean Marais as Lazare Carnot
- Martine Carol as Joséphine de Beauharnais
- Elvire Popesco as Lætitia Bonaparte
- Georges Marchal as Jean Lannes
- Vittorio De Sica as Pie VII
- Michel Simon as Alboise
- Rossano Brazzi as Lucien Bonaparte
- Claudia Cardinale as Pauline Bonaparte
- Leslie Caron as Élisabeth Le Michaud d'Arçon
- Ettore Manni as Murat
- Jack Palance as General Franz von Weyrother
- Daniela Rocca as Caroline Bonaparte
- Orson Welles as Robert Fulton
- Nelly Kaplan as Juliette Récamier
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Ségur son
- Lucien Raimbourg as Joseph Fouché
- Rowland Bartrop as Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Anna Moffo as Giuseppina Grassini
- Janez Vhrovec as François II
- Guy Haurey as Friant
- Jean Mercure as Talleyrand
- Anna Maria Ferrero as Élisa Bonaparte
- Anthony Stuart as William Pitt
- Maurice Teynac as Schulmeister
- Henri Vidon as Fox
- Jacques Castelot as Cambacérès
- Guy Delorme as General Exelmans
- Louis Eymond as Lebrun
- Jean-Louis Horbette as Constant
- Pierre Tabard as General Andrault, count of Langeron
- Claude Carliez as Margaron
- Polycarpe Pavloff as Koutouzoff
- Jean-François Rémi as Duroc
- Jean-Marc Bory as Soult
- Georges Demas as Daumesnil
- André Randall as Whitworth
- André Certes as Berthier
- Antoine Baud as Bernadotte
- Jean Berger as Hédouville
- Raoul Billerey as Savary
- Jean-Louis Richard as Alexandre Ier de Russie
- Pierre Marteville as Joseph Bonaparte
- Pierre Peloux as Daru
- Davout d'Auerstaedt as Davout
- Claude Conty as Dolgoroukov
- Henri Cote
- Sophie Daria
- Henri-Jacques Huet
- Robert Lepagès
- José Squinquel
- André Oumansky
- Dominique Zardi
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