
After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer..

Cinema has always flirted with the cadaver of history, but few corpses have been kissed as hungrily as the Napoleonic legend in L'agonie des aigles. Shot in 1922, when Europe’s bones still ached from the Great War, the film arrives like a blood-spattered love letter smuggled out of a mausoleum. Director Julien Duvivi...

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Dominique Bernard-Deschamps

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" Cinema has always flirted with the cadaver of history, but few corpses have been kissed as hungrily as the Napoleonic legend in L'agonie des aigles. Shot in 1922, when Europe’s bones still ached from the Great War, the film arrives like a blood-spattered love letter smuggled out of a mausoleum. Director Julien Duvivier—years before his canonical Pépé le Moko—treats the Restoration era as a fever dream: lace handkerchiefs soaked in gun-oil, chandeliers that swing like guillotines, dancers whose..."
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Georges d'Esparbès
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1920 · IMDb —
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