Marysia i Napoleon
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Marysia i Napoleon is a Polish
historical film. It was released in 1966. The film is set in two time periods: modern and historical.
on a foreign scholarship. While driving his car along a detour he runs into an old manor in Walewice
village. On the wall of the manor he finds portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and his great love Maria Walewska, a Polish aristocrat who used her charms to convince the emperor to stand up for her country. Beranger meets there by accident a beautiful woman, a student of art history by the same name of Maria Walewska (Marysia). The pair of modern heroes both notice the striking resemblance of each other to the historical figures, and as if by magic, move back into the Napoleonic period, where they play the roles of Napoleon and his Polish consort. They fall in love.
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
historical film. It was released in 1966. The film is set in two time periods: modern and historical.
Plot
A young French historian, Napoleon Beranger, comes to WarsawWarsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
on a foreign scholarship. While driving his car along a detour he runs into an old manor in Walewice
Walewice
Walewice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bielawy, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland, on the Bzura River. It lies approximately west of Łowicz and north of the regional capital Łódź....
village. On the wall of the manor he finds portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and his great love Maria Walewska, a Polish aristocrat who used her charms to convince the emperor to stand up for her country. Beranger meets there by accident a beautiful woman, a student of art history by the same name of Maria Walewska (Marysia). The pair of modern heroes both notice the striking resemblance of each other to the historical figures, and as if by magic, move back into the Napoleonic period, where they play the roles of Napoleon and his Polish consort. They fall in love.
Main characters
- Beata TyszkiewiczBeata TyszkiewiczBeata Maria Helena Tyszkiewiczówna-Kalenicka is a Polish actress.-Biography:Beata Tyszkiewicz is one of Poland’s quintessentially cinematic beauties, having worked exclusively on the big screen...
- Maria Walewska/Marysia - Gustaw HoloubekGustaw HoloubekGustaw Holoubek was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator.Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of Poland...
- Napoleon Bonaparte/Napoleon Beranger - Juliusz Łuszczewski - Chamberlain Anastazy Walewski, uncle
- Halina Kossobudzka - Princess Jabłonowska, Walewski sister
- Ewa Krasnodębska - Anetka Potocka
- Ignacy Machowski- Geraud Duroc
- Kazimierz Rudzki - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Anna Ciepielewska - maid to Mrs Walewska Walewskiej / Marta
- Bogumił Kobiela - valet Michael
- Wieńczysław Gliński - Paweł Łączyński, Mrs. Walewska brother