Imperial Venus (film)
1962 film
- 1962 (1962)
Italy
Imperial Venus (French: Vénus impériale, Italian: Venere Imperiale) is a 1962 French-Italian historical film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Gina Lollobrigida, Stephen Boyd and Raymond Pellegrin. It depicts the life of Pauline Bonaparte, the sister of Napoleon.[2][3] For her performance Lollobrigida won the David di Donatello for best actress and the Nastro d'Argento for the same category.[4]
Paolina (Paulette) is the sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, she is portrayed as a willful, yet impulsive woman through her marriages and scandals, through the heights and depths of Napoleon's life.
Cast
- Gina Lollobrigida as Paulette Bonaparte
- Stephen Boyd as Jules de Canouville
- Raymond Pellegrin as Napoleon Bonaparte
- Micheline Presle as Josephine
- Gabriele Ferzetti as Freron
- Massimo Girotti as Leclerc
- Marco Guglielmi as Junot
- Lilla Brignone as Letizia
- Ernesto Calindri as Cardinal Fesch
- Andrea Checchi as Doctor
- Giulio Bosetti as Prince Camillo Borghese
- Gianni Santuccio as Antonio Canova
- Maria Laura Rocca as Laura De Barral
- Giustino Durano as Bousque
- Liana Del Balzo as Princess Borghese
- Andrea Bosic as Del Val
- Claudio Catania as Gerolamo Bonaparte
- Attilio Dottesio
References
- ^ "Rome". Variety. 3 May 1961. p. 86.
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
- ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
External links
- Imperial Venus at IMDb
- Imperial Venus at Variety Distribution
- v
- t
- e
Films directed by Jean Delannoy
- Paris-Deauville (1934)
- Tamara (1938)
- Golden Venus (1938)
- The Black Diamond (1941)
- Fever (1942)
- Gambling Hell (1942)
- The Murderer is Afraid at Night (1942)
- Pontcarral, Empire Colonel (1942)
- The Eternal Return (1943)
- The Hunchback (1944)
- Blind Desire (1945)
- Pastoral Symphony (1946)
- Les jeux sont faits (1947)
- To the Eyes of Memory (1948)
- The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
- God Needs Men (1950)
- Savage Triangle (1951)
- The Moment of Truth (1952)
- Napoleon Road (1953)
- Daughters of Destiny (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- Obsession (1954)
- The Little Rebels (1955)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Guingette (1959)
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- La Princesse de Clèves (1961)
- Rendezvous (1961)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- Les amitiés particulières (1964)
- The Majordomo (1965)
- The Double Bed (1965)
- The Sultans (1966)
- Action Man (1967)
- Children of Mata Hari (1970)
- Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)
- The Crime of Pierre Lacaze (1983)
- The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987)
- Bernadette (1988)
- The Passion of Bernadette (1990)
- Mary of Nazareth (1995)
 | This article related to a French film of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
 | This article related to historical films is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e
