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.
as Napoléon Bonaparte
as Joséphine de Beauharnais
as Old Napoléon Bonaparte
as Talleyrand
as Regnault de St-Jean d'Angely
as Madame de Dino
as Trader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
as Barras
as Pauline Borghese
as General Duroc
as Eléonore Denuelle
as Marshal Michel Ney
as Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
as Karl von Metternich
as Marshal Jean Lannes
as Elisa Baccioli
as Emilie Pellapra
as Count Montholon
as Marie Walewska
as Garat
as Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
as Lefebvre
as Madame Sans-Gêne
as Marquis de Caulaincourt
as Queen Hortense de Beauharnais
as Lucien Bonaparte
as Désirée Clary
as General Cambronne
as Marie-Louise d'Autriche
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
as Marshal Joachim Murat
as Sir Hudson Lowe
as Count of Blanc-Mesnil
as Louis XVIII
as An innkeeper
as Laetitia
as General Gourgaud
as Count Joseph Fouché
as Bourrienne (uncredited)
as Louis XV (uncredited)
as Madame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
as Louis Bonaparte (uncredited)
as Cambacérès (uncredited)
as Madame Bertrand (uncredited)
as Joseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
as General Bertrand (uncredited)
as Madame Tallien (uncredited)
as Madame Hamelin (uncredited)
as 'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
as Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
as Marshal Pérignon (uncredited)
as Neipperg
