1 of the great war films of all time with by far the biggest production
If you want to talk about epic war films there may be none bigger than Waterloo. The movie was done by Dino De Laurentis in a Soviet-Italian production and filmed in the Ukraine using Red Army troops as the two giant opposing forces of the French led by Napoleon Bonaparte (Rod Steiger) and the British led by Arthur Wellesley the Duke of Wellington (Christopher Plummer) clashed at Waterloo. You actually have to see the film to understand what a giant production it was.<br /><br />There’s a scene at the beginning when Napoleon returns from exile and is faced with an entire division. There had to be around 500 soldiers used and that was only a hint at what would come during the Battle of Waterloo.<br /><br />Of course a bunch of people running around dressed up as soldiers only gets you so far if the story isn’t strong and in this case it is driven by the two main antagonists. Napoleon is portrayed as a man hungry for power but also one that believes he is France. After he returns to Paris for instance there’s a scene where Steiger is dictating letters to other heads of state. He talks about how the people put the French crown on his head and how he saved his nation. The Duke of Wellington is an elitist from the British upper class. He talks about how all his soldiers are scoundrels and how Bonaparte is not a gentleman.<br /><br />There are also some quite amazing shots. The most noteworthy are probably the ones featuring the cavalry. There are slow motion pictures of the British on their white horses and then the French charging at these squares of infantry the English formed. Again, it gives you the tremendous size of the production and the number of Soviet soldiers they used to make the movie. It is truly breath taking.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Original 1970 English-language production by Russian director Sergey Bondarchuk.