Napoleon at Saint Helena
| Napoleon at Saint Helena | |
|---|---|
.jpg) French release poster | |
| Directed by | Lupu Pick |
| Written by | Abel Gance Willy Haas Lupu Pick |
| Produced by | Peter Ostermayr Ottmar Ostermayr Serge Sandberg Lupu Pick |
| Starring | Werner Krauss Hanna Ralph Albert Bassermann Philippe Hériat |
| Cinematography | Robert Baberske Ludwig Lippert Fritz Arno Wagner Friedrich Weinmann |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat |
Release date | 7 November 1929 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.[1]
Cast
- Werner Krauss as Napoleon
- Hanna Ralph as Madame Bertrand
- Albert Bassermann as Hudson Lowe - Gouverneur von St. Helena
- Philippe Hériat as General Bertrand
- Louis V. Arco as Graf Montholon
- Suzy Pierson as Madame Montholon
- Hermann Thimig as General Gourgaud
- Paul Henckels as Baron Las Cases
- Georges Péclet as Kammerdiener Marchand
- Theodor Loos as Hauptmann Pionkowski
- Erwin Kalser as Dr. O'Meara
- Hugh Douglas as Captain Maitland
- Fritz Odemar as Leutnant Nichols
- Eduard von Winterstein as General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- Albert Florath as Louis XVIII
- Fritz Staudte as Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Max Kaufmann as Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
- Camillo Kossuth as Klemens von Metternich
- Alfred Gerasch as Tsar Alexander I of Russia
- Philipp Manning as Lord Holland
- Günther Hadank as The Duke of Wellington
- Karl Etlinger as Buchhändler Simon
- Jaro Fürth as Dr. Arnott
- Ernst Rotmund as Oberst Reed
- Magnus Stifter as Admiral Cockburn
- Lilli Weiss as child
- Matti Prinz as child
- Martin Kosleck
- Hermann Böttcher
- Franz Schafheitlin
- Stella Harf
- John Mylong
- Arthur von Klein
- Petra Unkel
References
- ^ Prawer p.87
Bibliography
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: Jewish Presences in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.
External links
 | This article related to a German film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article related to historical films is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Categories:
- 1929 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- German historical films
- German silent feature films
- 1920s drama films
- 1920s historical films
- German drama films
- Films directed by Lupu Pick
- Films set in the 1810s
- Films set in the 1820s
- Biographical films about Napoleon
- Films set on Saint Helena
- Cultural depictions of the Duke of Wellington
- Cultural depictions of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Cultural depictions of Klemens von Metternich
- Cultural depictions of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German film stubs
- Historical film stubs