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Actor Edouard Philipponnat, aged 24, in the role of Emperor Alexander I
The Only Frenchman Cast in Ridley Scott's Epic "Napoleon" Plays the Russian Tsar. The role of Alexander I is played by the 24-year-old Édouard Philipponna
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If you haven't yet got round to my series on Wink, you can add my new video on Amediateka to your watchlist
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Although it is a fallacy, Ridley Scott decided to use the myth of Napoleon firing cannon at the Sphinx in order to show more concisely in the film that Egypt had been taken
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Ridley Scott answers historians' criticism of his Napoleon film on French radio
Ridley Scott answers critics of his "Napoleon" who accuse him of falsifying history. I listened to Ridley Scott's interview on French radio, and when the talk turned to the barrage of criticism from historians who had abused his new film, the director said, curtly: "How
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Prince Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon with his wife, Princess Olympia, née Countess von Arco-Zinneberg, at the premiere of Ridley Scott's "Napoleon"
Jean-Christophe is a direct male-line descendant of Joseph, the eldest of Napoleon's brothers. Napoleon's only legitimate son, Napoleon II, died young and childless, while the numerous progeny of Napoleon's second son, the illegitimate Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, cannot lay claim to the
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Éomer of Rohan Rests in the Shade of His Shield
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Hannibal Barca from a Phoenician aristocratic family and the question of his appearance
Denzel Washington to play the Carthaginian general Hannibal, who invaded Italy on an elephant from North Africa, in a new Netflix project. The director is Antoine Fuqua, who has filmed Washington before: think of the action film The Equalizer. As for the historical figure, it is hard to speak of
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Did you, too, imagine Ron Weasley's return to Hogwarts rather differently?
Rupert Grint on the set of "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" two years ago
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Is Everyone Ready for the Third Season of The White Lotus Without Tanya McQuoid?
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By the way, the film is available not only on Wink, but on YouTube too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T04POnbynJY
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The British throne from George II to his grandson and on to Queen Victoria
It is not often that a grandfather hands the throne to a grandson rather than a son. But George II and George III are precisely such a case. True, if George III quite conventionally passed the baton to his son, George IV, the latter was succeeded by his younger brother