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Napoleon: Destiny and Death

7.3/ 1020211h 28m

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May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.

Directed by Mathieu Schwartz

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Tristan Delus

Napoleon Bonaparte

Denis Podalydès

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

Patrice Gueniffey

Self - Historian

Jacques-Olivier Boudon

Jacques-Olivier Boudon

Self - Historian

Thierry Lenz

Self - Historian

Pierre Branda

Self - Historian

Charles-Éloi Vial

Self - Historian

Jean-Marie Rouart

Jean-Marie Rouart

Self - Writer