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The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
Directed by Alan Taylor
“The world's most powerful man is about to fight his greatest battle... between love and glory.”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 47m
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.
Cast
Ian Holm
Napoleon Bonaparte / Sergeant Eugene Lenormand
Iben Hjejle
Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut
Tim McInnerny
Dr. Lambert
Nigel Terry
Montholon
Eddie Marsan
Louis Marchand
T
Tom Watson
Gerard
Hugh Bonneville
Bertrand
Murray Melvin
Antommarchi
Clive Russell
Sergeant Justin Bommel
B
Bob Mason
Captain Nicholls
Trevor Cooper
Leaud
Chris Langham
Maurice
Crew
- Director
- Alan Taylor
- Screenplay
- Kevin Molony, Alan Taylor, Herbie Wave
- Novel
- Simon Leys
- Director of Photography
- Alessio Gelsini Torresi
- Original Music Composer
- Rachel Portman
- Editor
- Masahiro Hirakubo
- Producer
- Uberto Pasolini
Details
- Release date
- 2001-08-11
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
- Production
- Film4 Productions, Mikado Film, Redwave Films, Senator Film, Panorama Films, RAI