Waterloo Movie Review 1971

Massive chronicle of Napoleon's European conquests and eventual defeat at the hands of Wellington. Filmed on location in Italy and the Ukraine, it bombed due largely to Steiger's bizarre rendition of Napoleon.

Distribution

Fusion Video, 100 Fusion Way, Country Club Hills, IL 60478, URL: http://www.coldfusionvideo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 122 minutes.
Originally from Italian, Russian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Historical Drama, War, General, Big-Budget Bombs, France

Screenplay

Sergei Bondarchuk, H.A.L. Craig, Vittorio Bonicelli

Cast

Rod Steiger, Orson Welles, Virginia McKenna, Michael Wilding, Donal Donnelly, Christopher Plummer, Jack Hawkins, Dan O'Herlihy, Terence Alexander, Rupert Davies, Ivo Garrani, Gianni "John" Garko, Ian Ogilvy, Andrea Checchi, Jean Louis, Willoughby Gray, John Savident, Adrian Brine, Jeffrey Wickham, Sergei Zakariadze, Richard Heffer, Aldo Cecconi, Peter Davies, Eugene Samoilov

Cinematography

Armando Nannuzzi

Director

Sergei Bondarchuk

Music

Nino Rota

Producer

Dino De Laurentiis, Mosfilm, Columbia Pictures