Waterloo (1970)
Country: IT/USSR
Technical: col/scope 132m
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
Synopsis:
Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba and gathers a new army with which to threaten his European neighbours. He is confronted by the British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington near a village in Flanders, but the Prussians are slow to arrive.
Review:
Bondarchuk followed his masterpiece War and Peace with this giant international production. As in all such things one has to contend with a cosmopolitan cast speaking in accented English, and narrative structure was never the director's strong suit, but for sheer spectacle this went unsurpassed in the pre-digital age, and the charge of the French cuirassiers on the British squares is a defining moment.
Country: IT/USSR
Technical: col/scope 132m
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
Synopsis:
Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba and gathers a new army with which to threaten his European neighbours. He is confronted by the British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington near a village in Flanders, but the Prussians are slow to arrive.
Review:
Bondarchuk followed his masterpiece War and Peace with this giant international production. As in all such things one has to contend with a cosmopolitan cast speaking in accented English, and narrative structure was never the director's strong suit, but for sheer spectacle this went unsurpassed in the pre-digital age, and the charge of the French cuirassiers on the British squares is a defining moment.
Country: IT/USSR
Technical: col/scope 132m
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Cast: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
Synopsis:
Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba and gathers a new army with which to threaten his European neighbours. He is confronted by the British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington near a village in Flanders, but the Prussians are slow to arrive.
Review:
Bondarchuk followed his masterpiece War and Peace with this giant international production. As in all such things one has to contend with a cosmopolitan cast speaking in accented English, and narrative structure was never the director's strong suit, but for sheer spectacle this went unsurpassed in the pre-digital age, and the charge of the French cuirassiers on the British squares is a defining moment.