Waterloo (1970)
Genre: Drama / War
Duration: 134 minuten
Alternative titles: Waterloo: The Last Hundred Days of Napoleon / Battle of Waterloo
Country:
Italy / Soviet Union
Directed by: Sergey Bondarchuk
Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles
IMDb score:
7,3 (14.325)
Releasedate: 26 October 1970
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Waterloo plot
"One incredible afternoon Napoleon met Wellington . . . at Waterloo."
To his anger, Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the island of Elba after a defeat. He does not leave it at that and manages to return to the mainland with a thousand men, where he subsequently manages to collect more and more troops. When he has formed a large army, he takes on British General Arthur Wellesley. The two armies meet in Waterloo, where the decisive battle is about to take place.
Actors and actresses
Napoleon Bonaparte
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Louis XVIII
General Sir Thomas Picton
Duchess of Richmond
Marshal Michel Ney
Gordon
La Bedoyere
Drouot
Marshal Soult
Reviews & comments
baspls
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- 4118 messages
- 1673 votes
Waterloo is the large-scale epic about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte against Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington and (not to be forgotten) Gebhard von Blücher of Prussia and William II of the Netherlands (although it does not appear in the movie).
Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer play their roles well, but the best of the film was the many costumes and the impressive way in which the battles were depicted, complete with slow-motion cavalry charge and the camera that provides a bird's-eye view. about the fighting. No wonder the film was a source of inspiration for Peter Jackson.
The film was shot in Ukraine and the extras were performed by troops from the Soviet Union's army. Soviet Russian director Sergey Bondarchuk previously made film adaptations of War and Peace (also about the Neapolitan period). Waterloo was his only Western film. Unfortunately, the film was not a success, despite its very high budget. Which also meant that Stanley Kubrick could not find producers for his Napoleon film and that is of course an eternal shame for every film lover.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10012 messages
- 4678 votes
Impressive and credible reconstruction of the Battle of Waterloo, which looks very good after 50 years. Everything was pulled out for this and Bondarchuk could count on more than 15,000 extras and a colossal budget. The film was a box office success, but the production was so expensive that it was not even enough to cover all costs. I also thought the casting was well chosen: Steiger sometimes overacts as the megalomaniac but also half-sick Napoleon who still wants to make one last move. The famous reference to the Grouchy blunder ("Where is Grouchy?"), which cost Napoleon victory, is not forgotten here.
Plummer is a great actor and proves that again as Wellington. The photography and the angles on the battlefield stunned me and you feel what a war must have meant at that time. There are historical errors (I read) but you have to be a real Waterloo specialist to detect them, I think. As far as I'm concerned, it's a must-see because of its spectacular mass scenes.
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scorsese
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- 13235 messages
- 11125 votes
Excellent film in which Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington face each other. A large-scale film that is beautifully decorated and in which the famous Battle of Waterloo provides impressive images. Rod Steiger sometimes plays his role a bit exaggerated, but he gets away with this because it concerns Napoleon.
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