Cast & Crew

Directed by

Abel Gance

Writing Credits

Abel Gance
(written by)

Cast

Albert Dieudonné
Napoléon Bonaparte
Nicolas Roudenko
Napoléon Bonaparte enfant
Edmond Van Daële
Maximilien Robespierre
Alexandre Koubitzky
Georges-Jacques Danton
Antonin Artaud
Jean-Paul Marat
Abel Gance
Louis Saint-Just
Gina Manès
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Suzanne Bianchetti
La reine Marie-Antoinette
Marguerite Gance
Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonné
Élisa Bonaparte
Philippe Hériat
Antonio Salicetti
Pierre Batcheff
Le général Lazare Hoche
Eugénie Buffet
Laetizia Bonaparte
Acho Chakatouny
Pozzo di Borgo
Nicolas Koline
Tristan Fleuri
Max Maxudian
Barras
Annabella
Violine Fleuri et Désirée Clary
Henri Baudin
Santo-Ricci - le berger corse
Alex Bernard
Le général Dugommier / Le conventionnel Collet d'Herbois (as Alexandre Bernard)
Roger Blum
Le comédien Talma
Daniel Buiret
Augustin Robespierre
Georges Cahuzac
Le vicomte de Beauharnais
Adrien Caillard
Thomas Gasparin / Le conventionnel Ricord
Pierre de Canolle
Le capitaine Auguste Marmont
Carrie Carvalho
La voyante
Sylvio Cavicchia
Lucien Bonaparte adulte
Léon Courtois
Le général Carteaux
Gilbert Dacheux
Le général du Teil
Damia
La Marseillaise
Pierre Danis
Le colonel Muiron
W. Percy Day
Amiral Hood
Raoul De Ansorena
Capitaine Desaix
Boris de Fast
L'Oeil-Vert
Favière
Fouché
Serge Freddy-Karl
Le petit tambour Marcellin Fleuri
Jean Gaudrey
Le conventionnel Jean-Lambert Tallien
Simone Genevois
Pauline Bonaparte
Georges Hénin
Eugène de Beauharnais
Jean Henry
Le sergent Andoche Junot
Henry Krauss
Moustache
Harry Krimer
Rouget de l'Isle
Georges Lampin
Joseph Bonaparte
Alexandre Mathillon
Le général Scherer
Genica Missirio
Le capitaine Joachim Murat
Francine Mussey
Lucille Desmoulins
Jeanne Pen
Hortense de Beauharnais
Roblin
Picot de Peccaduc
Jack Rye
Le général O'Hara
Louis Sance
Le roi Louis XVI
Maurice Schutz
Pasquale Paoli
Andrée Standart
Thérèse Tallien
Suzy Vernon
Madame Récamier
Petit Vidal
Philippeaux
Robert Vidalin
Camille Desmoulins
Louis Vonelly
Le poète André Chénier
Jean d'Yd
La Bussière
René Jeanne
Un professeur à Brienne
Lomon
Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles
Florence Talma
Louise Gély Danton
François Viguier
Le conventionnel Couthon
Raoul Villiers
Le conventionnel Boissy d'Anglas / stabsofficer
Michel Zahar
Un homme du club des Cordeliers
Alberti
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Un officier à Toulon (uncredited)
Paul Amiot
Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville dit Fouquier-Tinville
François Angely
Le général Henriot
Robert Arnoux
Un conventionnel
Jean Arroy
Un sans-culotte à Toulon / Un conventionnel (uncredited)
Henri Beaulieu
Beaumarchais
Blanche Beaume
Servant of Marat
Benedict
Cromwell
Armand Bernard
Jean-Jean
Camille Beuve
Le docteur Guillotin
Blin
Calmelet
Henry Bonvallet
Le général Menou
Boudréau
La Fayette
Albert Bras
Monge
Lise Carvalho
Mademoiselle Lenormand
André Cerf
Un soldat
Henri Cerf
Le vieux soldat
Chabez
Petit rôle
Roger Chantal
Jérôme Bonaparte
Jean Dalbe
Petit rôle
Florence Dalma
Madame Danton
Mr. de Bourgival
Un moine / Le révolutionnaire Courcelier (uncredited)
Daniel de Wybo
Robespierre le jeune
Jean Demerçay
Le capitaine Suchet
Jean Dréville
Bit role
Emile Engeldorff
Laurent-Basse / Jacques Bonhomme (uncredited)
Guy Favières
Fouché
Pierre Ferval
Un soldat / Un homme du club des Cordelier (uncredited)
Jean Fleury
Le conventionnel Carnot
Floquet
Un conventionnel
Paul Franceschi
Le professeur de géographie
Francis
Un soldat
Sylvie Gance
Théroigne de Méricourt
Edmond T. Gréville
Un homme du club des Cordeliers
Felix Guglielmi
Un berger corse
Robert Guilbert
Le capitaine Le Marois
Joë Hamman
L'archer vengeur
Fabien Haziza
Un Bonaparte
Jean Jacquinet
Montesquiou
Léon Larive
Le supérieur de Brienne
Geo Leclercq
Dutheil
Raphaël Lievin
Le conventionnel Fabre d'Englantine
Pierrette Lugand
Caroline Bonaparte
G.A. Martin
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Noëlle Mato
Madame Marat
Ernest Maupain
George Washington
Daniel Mendaille
Fréron
Grogoire Metchikoff
Le général Pierre François Charles Augereau
Jean Mitry
Bit role
Louis Monfils
Le cuisinier à Brienne
Pierre Morin
Petit rôle
Laurent Morléas
Un officier
Médus
Bit role
Maggy Pironet
Bit role
Marcel Pérès
Un homme du club des Cordeliers
Jean Rauzena
Le petit Lucien Bonaparte
Fernand Rauzéna
Louis Bonaparte
Joaquim Renez
Le révolutionnaire Favière
Émilien Richard
Le révolutionnaire Brissot
Philippe Rolla
Le général André Masséna
Régnier
Denis Diderot
Saint-Allier
Le peintre David
André Scherer
Un volontaire de l'Ardèche
Georgette Sorelle
Madame Élisabeth
Mony Thomassin
Hortense de Beaugarnais
Jean Tissier
Un soldat
Max Tréjean
Petit rôle
Henri Valbel
Petit rôle
Vaslin
Benjamin Franklin
Jean Wells
Bit role

Produced by

Henri de Cazotte
producer (uncredited)
Hugo Stinnes
producer (uncredited)
Wengoroff
producer (uncredited)

Music by

Simon Cloquet-Lafollye
(2024)
Carmine Coppola
(1981)
Carl Davis
(1980)
Arthur Honegger

Cinematography by

Léonce-Henri Burel
Jules Kruger
Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
(as Jean-Paul Mundviller)
Nikolai Toporkoff

Editing by

Abel Gance
Frank Hall
(US 1929 short version) (uncredited)

Casting By

Louis Osmont

Art Direction by

Alexandre Benois
Alexandre Lochakoff
(short period)

Costume Design by

Mme. Augris
Georges Charmy
(as Charmy)
Mme. Neminsky
Sauvageau
(uncredited)

Makeup Department

Boris de Fast
makeup artist
Wladimir Kwanine
makeup artist

Production Management

Noë Bloch
production manager
Edouard De Bersaucourt
production manager
Constantin Geftman
unit manager
Robert A. Harris
production supervisor (1981 version)
Louis Osmont
unit production manager
Rene Rufly
unit manager (as Ruffly)
William Delafontaine
unit manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Henri Andréani
assistant director
Jean Arroy
trainee assistant director
Pierre Danis
assistant director
Henry Krauss
assistant director
Anatole Litvak
assistant director
Jean Mitry
trainee assistant director
Mario Nalpas
assistant director
Sacher Purnal
trainee assistant director
Viktor Tourjansky
assistant director
Alexandre Volkoff
assistant director
Georges Lampin
assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

Pierre Schild
art decorator (as Pierre Schildknecht)
Alfred Herrmann
poster artist : Germany (uncredited)
Georges Jacouty
art decorator (uncredited)
Eugène Lourié
art decorator (uncredited)
Vladimir Meingard
assistant art director (uncredited)
Serge Piménoff
assistant art director (uncredited)
Jan Tschichold
poster artist : Germany (uncredited)

Sound Department

Mike Berniker
recording director: Milan (1981 version)
Keith Klantwitter
sound engineer (1981 version) (as Keith Klawitter)
Brad Sherman
sound recordist (1981 version)

Special Effects by

Segundo de Chomón
special effects
Paul Minine
special effects
Edward Scholl
special effects
Eugen Schüfftan
special effects
Nicolas Wilcké
special effects

Visual Effects by

W. Percy Day
matte painter
Eugen Schüfftan
visual effects supervisor
Nicolas Wilcké
miniature maker

Camera and Electrical Department

Albinet
gaffer
Fédote Bourgasoff
camera operator
Paul Briquet
camera operator
Léonce-Henri Burel
additional photographer
Doublon
gaffer
Rusty Geller
assistant camera (1981 version)
Graza
gaffer
Roger Hubert
additional photographer
Georges Lucas
additional photographer
Jim McCoy
camera operator (1981 version)
Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
additional photographer (as Jean-Pierre Mundviller)
Émile Pierre
additional photographer
Lee Planskoy
camera operator
Henri Berryer
electrician (uncredited)
Marcel Eywinger
camera operator (uncredited)
Monniot
camera operator (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Jeanne Lanvin
costumes: Josephine
Galvin
footwear (uncredited)

Editorial Department

Marguerite Beaugé
assistant editor
Henriette Pinson
associate editor

Music Department

Paul Bogaev
conductor: 1981 re-release
Carmine Coppola
conductor: 1981 re-release / music arranger: 1981 re-release
Dennis James
musician: organ: 1981 re-release
Douglas M. Lackey
music editor (1981 version) (As Douglas Lackey)
Don MacDougall
music mixer (1981 version) (as Don Macdougal)
Colin Matthews
orchestrator: Carl Davis (uncredited)
David Matthews
orchestrator: Carl Davis (uncredited)
Christopher Palmer
orchestrator: Carl Davis (uncredited)
J.E. Szyfer
conductor (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

Simone Surdieux
script supervisor

Additional Crew

Francis Ford Coppola
presenter (1981 version)
Simon Feldman
technical director
Grégoire Geftmann
production assistant
Edmond T. Gréville
production assistant
Hoden
production assistant
Leonid Komerovsky
production assistant
Georges Lampin
production assistant
Lemirt
armorer
Grogoire Metchikoff
production assistant
Henry Pauly
production assistant
Ivan Pavloff
production assistant
Andre Pironet
production assistant
Christopher Reyna
consultant: Polyvision alignment (1981 version)
Michel Scripnikoff
production assistant
Peter Williamson
tinting supervisor (1981 version)
Louis Osmont
key accountant (uncredited)
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