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Storyline

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

Released

1970-10-26
Revenue

$3,052,000
Budget

$25,000,000
Runtime

2hr 14m
Genre

History, Drama, War
Status

Released
Language

Pусский, English
7.3
Production

Mosfilm, DDL Cinematografica

Crew

Sergey Bondarchuk

Director

H.A.L. Craig

Screenplay

Dino De Laurentiis

Producer

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Cast

Rod Steiger

Napoleon Bonaparte

Christopher Plummer

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Orson Welles

Louis XVIII

Jack Hawkins

General Sir Thomas Picton

Virginia McKenna

Duchess of Richmond

Dan O'Herlihy

Marshal Michel Ney

Rupert Davies

Gordon

Philippe Forquet

La Bedoyere

Gianni Garko

Drouot

Ivo Garrani

Marshal Soult

Ian Ogilvy

De Lancey

Michael Wilding

Colonel Sir William Ponsonby

Terence Alexander

Lord Uxbridge

Donal Donnelly

O'Connor

Oleg Vidov

Tomlinson

Charles Borromel

Mulholland

Peter Davies

Lord Hay

Veronica De Laurentiis

Magdalene Hall

Vladimir Druzhnikov

Gerard

Willoughby Gray

Ramsey

Roger Green

Duncan

Orso Maria Guerrini

Officer

Richard Heffer

Mercer

Orazio Orlando

Constant

John Savident

Muffling

Jeffry Wickham

Colborne

Susan Wood

Sarah

Gennadi Yudin

Chactas

Sergo Zakariadze

Blucher

Charles Millot

Grouchy

Evgeniy Samoylov

Cambronne

Antonio Anelli

Molien (uncredited)

Camillo Angelini-Rota

Dr Vitrolles (uncredited)

Vaclovas Blėdis

Colson (uncredited)

Armando Bottin

Legros (uncredited)

Adrian Brine

Capt. Normyle

Pauls Butkevics

Officer with Wellington (uncredited)

Pietro Ceccarelli

(uncredited)

Aldo Cecconi

King Charles X (uncredited)

Vasiliy Livanov

Percy (uncredited)

Viktor Murganov

(uncredited)

Lev Polyakov

Kellerman (uncredited)

Irina Skobtseva

Maria (uncredited)

Valentins Skulme

Tamburo Maggione (uncredited)

Rostislav Yankovsky

(uncredited)

Igor Yasulovich

Officer (uncredited)

Andrey Yurenev

Corporal (uncredited)

Yan Yanakiyev

Larrey (uncredited)

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Reviews for Waterloo

A Review by maketheSWITCH 8

Written by maketheSWITCH on 2020-06-01

'Waterloo' is a film that, while technically impressive, feels emotionally distant. Bondarchuk and cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi never hi... read more

A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-06-03

Sergei Bondarchuk ought to be commended for his really rather sterling effort at re-creating some of the one hundred days of Napoleon's camp... read more

Sergei Bondarchuk ought to be commended for his really rather sterling effort at re-creating some of the one hundred days of Napoleon's campaign following his escape from exile on Elba in 1815. Rod Steiger is superbly cast and imperious as the maniacal but genius French Emperor who very nearly conquered the mainland continent of Europe, despite the comprehensive alliance lined up against him - and led, at the denouement, but his nemesis the Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer). Some considerable effort has gone into designing and delivering this whole spectacle of a film - from the grand palatial settings, the costumes, intricate uniforms - and the battle scenes are as authentic as I've seen since that other Napoleonic epic "Austerlitz" (1960). Steiger portrays the Emperor in a characterful and personal fashion; he is full of the megalomaniac but also the portrayal indicates a little more of what made the great man tick (or not). Having read somewhat more about Wellington (I'm a Brit), I was somewhat disappointed by the slightly smug - almost foppish - portrayal of the "Grand Old" Duke by Plummer. He looked the part, but somehow his efforts were always outshone onscreen - by the fleeting appearances of Jack Hawkins, the glamorous Virginia McKenna - even by a squealing piglet. That said, though - this is a film about a battle and the action scenes are superb. They look and sound genuine engendering no end of sympathy for the soldiers who served as little more than cannon/bullet/bayonet fodder as they marched around (and fell) in the mud. The narrative is quite tight; we don't get distracted by too many romantic interludes or other daft diversions, and once it gets up steam it is an effective depiction of a pretty gruesome conflagration that history (for the winners, at any rate) has successfully sanitised. Bit long, we could do with less of the preamble, but once it gets going it presents a convincing effort from Steiger and is well worth watching as an example of large scale epic cinema before the computer took over the role of the extras, the sets, the story....

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A Review by SWITCH.

'Waterloo' is a film that, while technically impressive, feels emotionally distant. Bondarchuk and cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi never hide the influence of Napoleonic paintings on the visual language of the film, but that's essentially ...