Rod Steiger

Christopher Plummer

Orson Welles

Jack Hawkins

Virginia McKenna

Dan O'Herlihy

Rupert Davies

Philippe Forquet

Gianni Garko

Ivo Garrani

Ian Ogilvy

Michael Wilding

Terence Alexander

Donal Donnelly

Oleg Vidov

Charles Borromel

Peter Davies

Veronica De Laurentiis

Vladimir Druzhnikov

Willoughby Gray

Roger Green

Orso Maria Guerrini

Richard Heffer

Orazio Orlando

John Savident

Jeffry Wickham

Susan Wood

Gennadi Yudin

Sergo Zakariadze

Charles Millot

Evgeniy Samoylov

Antonio Anelli

Camillo Angelini-Rota

Vaclovas Blėdis

Armando Bottin

Adrian Brine

Pauls Butkevics

Pietro Ceccarelli

Aldo Cecconi

Vasiliy Livanov

Viktor Murganov

Lev Polyakov

Irina Skobtseva

Valentins Skulme

Rostislav Yankovsky

Igor Yasulovich

Andrey Yurenev

Yan Yanakiyev

Sergey Bondarchuk

H.A.L. Craig

Vittorio Bonicelli

Richard C. Meyer

Dino De Laurentiis

Armando Nannuzzi

Mario Garbuglia

Ferdinando Giovannoni

A. Menyalshchikov

Semyon Valyushok

Emilio D'Andria

Ken Muggleston

Nino Rota

Bruno Nicolai

Guglielmo Ambrosi

Guy Luongo

Piotor M. Sviridov

Vladimir Dostal

Vladimir Likhachyov

Franco Fantasia

Giuseppe Bernardini

J.N. Carpuchin

Nino Cristiani

Alfonso Avincola

Paul Ronald

Maria De Matteis

Ugo Pericoli

Vanio Amici

Elvira D'Amico

Gino Landi

Kevin Gurry

Christopher Lancaster

Alban Streeter

Les Wiggins

Paolo Borselli

Alberto De Rossi

Mikhail Chikiryov

Giannetto De Rossi

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'Waterloo' is a film that, while technically impressive, feels emotionally distant. Bondarchuk and cinematographer Armando Nannuzzi never hide the influence of Napoleonic paintings on the visual language of the film, but that's essentially what 'Waterloo' becomes - a piece of history told at arm's length from the distance of time. As difficult as it is to emotionally engage with, 'Waterloo' is still an impressive production, all the more so as a demonstration of Sergei Bondarchuk's remarkable ability for balancing the inner world of his characters and the spiritual horror of war with the ultimate expression of the epic in cinema. For those reasons alone, 'Waterloo' is certainly a film that deserves attention.

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Sergei Bondarchuk ought to be commended for his really rather sterling effort at re-creating some of the one hundred days of Napoleon's campaign following his escape from exile on Elba in 1815. Rod Steiger is superbly cast and imperious as the maniacal but genius French Emperor who very nearly conquered the mainland continent of Europe, despite the comprehensive alliance lined up against him - and led, at the denouement, but his nemesis the Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer). Some considerable effort has gone into designing and delivering this whole spectacle of a film - from the grand palatial settings, the costumes, intricate uniforms - and the battle scenes are as authentic as I've seen since that other Napoleonic epic "Austerlitz" (1960). Steiger portrays the Emperor in a characterful and personal fashion; he is full of the megalomaniac but also the portrayal indicates a little more of what made the great man tick (or not). Having read somewhat more about Wellington (I'm a Brit), I was somewhat disappointed by the slightly smug - almost foppish - portrayal of the "Grand Old" Duke by Plummer. He looked the part, but somehow his efforts were always outshone onscreen - by the fleeting appearances of Jack Hawkins, the glamorous Virginia McKenna - even by a squealing piglet. That said, though - this is a film about a battle and the action scenes are superb. They look and sound genuine engendering no end of sympathy for the soldiers who served as little more than cannon/bullet/bayonet fodder as they marched around (and fell) in the mud. The narrative is quite tight; we don't get distracted by too many romantic interludes or other daft diversions, and once it gets up steam it is an effective depiction of a pretty gruesome conflagration that history (for the winners, at any rate) has successfully sanitised. Bit long, we could do with less of the preamble, but once it gets going it presents a convincing effort from Steiger and is well worth watching as an example of large scale epic cinema before the computer took over the role of the extras, the sets, the story....

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Waterloo( 1970)

One incredible afternoon Napoleon met Wellington . . . at Waterloo.

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Written by SWITCH. on Mon Jun 01 2020

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