
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Napoléon Bonaparte

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Old Napoléon Bonaparte

Talleyrand

Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely

Madame de Dino

Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)

Barras

Pauline Borghese

General Duroc

Eléonore Denuelle

Marshal Michel Ney

Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

Karl von Metternich

Marshal Jean Lannes

Elisa Baccioli

Emilie Pellapra

Count Montholon

Marie Walewska

Garat

Marshal Nicolas Oudinot

Lefebvre

Madame Sans-Gêne

Marquis de Caulaincourt

Queen Hortense de Beauharnais

Lucien Bonaparte

Désirée Clary

General Cambronne

Marie-Louise d'Autriche

Ludwig van Beethoven

Count Emmanuel de Las Cases

Marshal Joachim Murat

Sir Hudson Lowe

Count of Blanc-Mesnil

Louis XVIII

An innkeeper

Laetitia

General Gourgaud

Count Joseph Fouché

Bourrienne (uncredited)

Louis XV (uncredited)

Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)

Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)

Cambacérès (uncredited)

Madame Bertrand (uncredited)

Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)

General Bertrand (uncredited)

Madame Tallien (uncredited)

Madame Hamelin (uncredited)

'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)

Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)

Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)
Neipperg
