Original title: Napoleon vu par Abel Gance
Director: Abel Gance
Cast: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Antonin Artaud
France 1927 | black & white | 333 mins | Drama | Silent
Avaliable on: DCP
Abel Gance’s extraordinary depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is a landmark in cinema history, lauded by directors such as Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick, but a film that few audiences have had the opportunity to experience.
Painstakingly reconstructed by film historian Kevin Brownlow, the film has now been digitally restored in all its glory by Photoplay and the BFI National Archive and is available on DCP for the first time with its newly-recorded 7.1 score composed and conducted by Carl Davis.
Featuring ground-breaking technical innovations including its famous wide screen triptych finale, rich tints and tones and an epic running time of 5 ½ hours plus intervals, this is the film event of the century for all cinephiles.
UK/Eire release: 11 November 2016
Act running times:
Act 1: 01.53.51
Act 2: 01.03.35
Act 3: 01.47.05
Act 4: 00.46.49
Total running time: 5 hours, 30 mins. The film is delivered on 2 x DCPs