Austerlitz is a French film directed by Abel Gance released in 1960 .
Synopsis
The narrative describes the period of European history, from the signing of the Amiens Peace to the Battle of Austerlitz , the. Are described in particular:
- The case of the Duc d’Enghien
- The coronation of Napoleon I er
- The projects proposed by Robert Fulton
Technical sheet
- Title: Austerlitz
- Director: Abel Gance
- Collaboration with the realization: Roger Richebé
- Scenario: Abel Gance , Nelly Kaplan and Roger Richebé
- Photography: Henri Alekan , Robert Juillard
- Music: Jean Ledrut
- Sound: Pierre-Louis Calvet
- Sets: Jean Douarinou
- Costumes: Ferdinand Junker , Elisabeth Simon , Léon Zay
- Makeup: Hagop Arakelian , Igor Keldich
- Editing: Leonide Azar , Yvonne Martin , assisted by Kenout Peltier
- Assistants-director: Nelly Kaplan , Pierre Lary , Louis Pascal
- Photographers: Roger Forster , Raymond Voinquel
- Production: Alexander Salkind , Michael Salkind
- Production Companies: International Film Production Company (CIPRA), Lyre Films, Galatea Film, Michael Arthur Films, Dubrava Film
- Country: France , Italy , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , West Germany
- Genre: History
- Shooting languages: French, Russian, German
- Format: Colors ( Eastmancolor ) – 2.35: 1 (Dyaliscope) – mono – 35 mm
- Duration: 166 minutes (2:46)
- Release date :
- France –
Distribution
- Pierre Mondy : Napoleon Bonaparte
- Jean Marais : Lazare Carnot
- Martine Carol : Josephine de Beauharnais
- Elvire Popesco : Lætitia Bonaparte
- Georges Marchal : Jean Lannes
- Vittorio De Sica : Pope Pius VII
- Michel Simon : Alboise (from Pontoise , Seine-et-Oise )
- Rossano Brazzi : Lucien Bonaparte
- Claudia Cardinale : Pauline Bonaparte
- Leslie Caron : Elizabeth The Michaud of Arçon de Vaudey
- Ettore Manni : Murat
- Jack Palance : General Franz von Weyrother
- Daniela Rocca : Caroline Bonaparte
- Orson Welles : Robert Fulton
- Nelly Kaplan : Mrs Recamier
- Jean-Louis Trintignant : Ségur son
- Lucien Raimbourg : Joseph Fouché
- Rowland Bartrop : Horatio Nelson
- Anna Moffo : The Grassini
- Janez Vrhovec : François I er , Emperor of Austria
- Guy Haurey : Friant
- Jean Mercury : Talleyrand
- Anna Maria Ferrero : Elisa Bonaparte
- Anthony Stuart : William Pitt
- Maurice Teynac : Schulmeister
- Henri Vidon : Fox
- Jacques Castelot : Cambaceres
- Guy Delorme : General Exelmans
- Louis Eymond : Lebrun
- Jean-Louis Horbette : Constant , the valet of Napoleon
- Pierre Tabard : General Andrault, Count of Langeron
- Claude Carliez : Margaron
- Polycarp Pavloff : Kutuzov
- Jean-François Rémi : Duroc
- Jean-Marc Bory : Soult
- Georges Demas : Daumesnil
- André Randall : Whitworth
- André Certes : Berthier
- Antoine Baud : Bernadotte
- Jean Berger : Hedouville
- Raoul Billerey : Savary
- Jean-Louis Richard : Alexander 1 st , Czar of Russia
- Pierre Marteville : Joseph Bonaparte
- Pierre Peloux : Daru
- Davout of Auerstaedt : Louis Nicolas Davout
- Claude Conty : Dolgorukov
- Henri Cote
- Henri-Jacques Huet
- André Oumansky
- Dominique Zardi
- Robert Lepagès
- Sophie Daria
- Hugues Wanner
- Fernand Fabre
- Jean Degrave
- José Squinquel
Around the film
- The film was shot in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : a studio was set up in Belgrade’s largest exhibition hall , and battle scenes were supported by the Yugoslav army.
- In line with Abel Gance’s Pharaonic Napoleonic project , Austerlitz can be considered as the third of the six components initially envisaged. The film evokes primarily the causes of the confrontation during the 1 st part, and the battle itself. It begins shortly before the Consulate for life (1802) through the coronation of the Emperor, a year exactly before.
- From a huge budget that bankrupted the production company that accepted it, the film only had 335,000 viewers in 42 weeks.