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11/08/2001 Comedy, Drama 1h 47m
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The world's most powerful man is about to fight his greatest battle... between love and glory.

Overview

Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.

  1. Alan Taylor

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Ian Holm

    Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand

  2. Iben Hjejle

    Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut

  3. Tim McInnerny

    Dr. Lambert

  4. Nigel Terry

    Montholon

  5. Eddie Marsan

    Louis Marchand

  6. Tom Watson

    Gerard

  7. Hugh Bonneville

    Bertrand

  8. Murray Melvin

    Antommarchi

  9. Clive Russell

    Sergeant Justin Bommel

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-06-26
Exiled Napoleon (Sir Ian Holm) and his aides have come up with a cunning plan to get him from exile back into the heart of Paris where he can resurrect his imperial ambitions and restore his country to greatness. They have procured the services of an erstwhile deck hand who is the doppelgänger of the emperor and who has agreed to swap places. Carefully smuggled back to the mainland, the impoverished traveller has to make his own way to the city and with very few that he can trust to be loyal, he befriends the recently widowed “Nicole” (Iben Hjejle) and her young son “Gerard” (Tom Wats...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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