Napoleon at Saint Helena

Napoleon at Saint Helena
Napoleon at Saint Helena
	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 [de; fr]; Fritz Arno Wagner; Friedrich Weinmann [de];
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production; company	Peter Ostermayr Produktion
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. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Marseille and St. Helena. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Zander and Karl Weber.

Plot[edit]

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[edit]

Werner Krauss as Napoleon
Hanna Ralph as Madame Bertrand
Albert Bassermann as Governor Hudson Lowe of St. Helena
Philippe Hériat as General Bertrand
Louis V. Arco as Count Montholon
Suzy Pierson as Madame Montholon
Hermann Thimig as General Gourgaud
Paul Henckels as Baron Las Cases
Georges Péclet as Marchand
Theodor Loos as Capitain Pionkowski
Erwin Kalser as Dr. O'Meara
Hugh Douglas as Captain Maitland
Fritz Odemar as Lieutenant Nichols
Eduard von Winterstein as General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Albert Florath as Louis XVIII
Fritz Staudte [de] as Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Max Kaufmann as Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Camillo Kossuth [de] 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 Commandant 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[edit]

^ Prawer, p. 87.

Bibliography[edit]

Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2007) [2005]. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-303-9.