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Napoleon Road

1953 · 90 min

A gentle, sunny French comedy of small-town scheming, easy to enjoy and never mean-spirited.

Overview
A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • greed
  • class
  • work
  • friendship
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Jean Delannoy
Starring
Pierre Fresnay, Henri Vilbert, Claude Laydu, Raphaël Patorni, René Génin, Fernand Sardou, Mireille Ozy, Nicolas Amato
Runtime
90 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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