"Waterloo" is a 1970 epic historical war film about the Battle of Waterloo. A co-production between Italy and the Soviet Union, it is directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It stars Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington with a cameo by Orson Welles as Louis XVIII of France. Other stars include Jack Hawkins as General Sir Thomas Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal Ney.

Steiger and Plummer often narrate sections in voice-over, presenting thoughts of Napoleon and Wellington. The film takes a largely neutral stance and portrays many individual leaders and soldiers on each side, rather than simply focusing on Wellington and Napoleon. It creates a mostly-accurate chronology of the events of the battle, the extreme heroism on each side, and the tragic loss of life suffered by all the armies which took part.

The film is most famous for its lavish battle scenes, shot on-location in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. The impact of the 15,000 authentically-dressed extras, recreating the battle sections with true numbers and without special effects, is unsurpassed, and remains the highest number of costumed extras in any film.

The film received mixed reviews from critics, but won several awards, including BAFTAs for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction, and the 1971 David di Donatello for Best Film.

Cast

The French and allies

• Rod Steiger as Emperor Napoleon I
• Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal Michel Ney
• Philippe Forquet as Brigadier-General Charles de la Bédoyère
• Gianni Garko as Major-General Antoine Drouot
• Ivo Garrani as Marshal Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult
• Charles Millot as Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy
• Yevgeny Samoylov as Brigadier-General Pierre Cambronne
• Vladimir Druzhnikov as Général de Division Étienne Maurice Gérard
• Andrea Checchi as Old Guardsman
• Orazio Orlando as Constant
• Gennadi Yudin as Grenadier Chactas
• Armando Bottin as Sous-Lieutenant Legros
• Rodolfo Lodi as Joseph Fouché
• Jean Louis as Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
• Boris Molchanov as Général de Division Henri Gatien Bertrand
• Lev Polyakov as Général de Division François Étienne de Kellermann
• Giorgio Sciolette as Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier
• Sergio Testori as Lieutenant-General Marcellin Marbot
• Yan Yanakiyev as Dr. Dominique Jean Larrey
• Rostislav Yankovsky as Charles Joseph de Flahaut

The British and allies

• Christopher Plummer as Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
• Orson Welles as King Louis XVIII of France
• Jack Hawkins as Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton
• Virginia McKenna as Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
• Rupert Davies as Colonel Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
• Ian Ogilvy as Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey
• Michael Wilding as Major-General The Honorable Sir William Ponsonby
• Sergo Zakariadze as Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt
• Terence Alexander as Lieutenant-General Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge
• Donal Donnelly as Corporal O'Connor
• Oleg Vidov as Tomlinson
• Charles Borromel as Mulholland
• Peter Davies as Lieutenant-Colonel James Hay, Lord Hay
• Veronica De Laurentiis as Magdalene De Lancey
• Willoughby Gray as Major William Ramsay
• Roger Green as Duncan
• Richard Heffer as Captain Cavalié Mercer
• John Savident as Major-General Karl Freiherr von Müffling
• Jeffry Wickham as Colonel Sir John Colborne
• Susan Wood as Lady Sarah Lennox
• Andrea Esterhazy as Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
• Karl Lyepinsk as Generalfeldmarschall August Neidhardt von Gneisenau.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the full write-up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(1970_film)

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