Marie Walewska ( Conquest ) is an American film of Clarence Brown with Greta Garbo , released in 1937 , shot in the castle of Finckenstein in West Prussia , place of love ofNapoleon and Countess Walewska .
Synopsis
Marie Walewska meets Napoleon to stop the partition of Poland by the Russians, the Prussians and the Austrians. They will be lovers and have a child together.
Technical sheet
- Original title: Conquest
- French title: Marie Walewska
- Director: Clarence Brown and Gustav Machatý (uncredited)
- Scenario: SN Behrman , Samuel Hoffenstein and Salka Viertel from the novel Pani Walewska of Wacław Gąsiorowski and part of Helen Jerome
- Photography: Karl Freund
- Editing: Tom Held
- Music: Herbert Stothart
- Artistic direction: Cedric Gibbons and William A. Horning
- Costumes: Adrian
- Producer: Bernard H. Hyman
- Production and Distribution Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country of origin: United States
- Format: black and white – Sound: Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
- Genre: History
- Duration: 113 minutes
- Release dates: United States : ; France :
Distribution
- Greta Garbo : Marie Walewska
- Charles Boyer : Napoleon i st
- Reginald Owen : Talleyrand
- Alan Marshal : the captain of Ornano
- Henry Stephenson : Earl Walewski
- Leif Erickson : Lieutenant Paul Lecszinski
- May Whitty Lady : Laetitia Bonaparte
- Maria Ouspenskaya : Countess Pelagia Walewska
- C. Henry Gordon : Prince Poniatowski
- Claude Gillingwater : Stéphane
- Vladimir Sokoloff : the dying soldier
- Uncredited Actors
- Oscar Apfel : Count Potocka
- Albert Conti : Count Wallenstein
- Noble Johnson : Rustan
- Henry Kolker : Senator Wybitcki
- Ivan Lebedeff : Cossack Captain
- Charles Middleton : Sergeant at the Elbe Pass
- Roland Varno : Staos
- Robert Warwick : Captain Laroux
- George Zucco : Senator Malakowski