WATERLOO - by Sergei Bondarchuk (Import)
by Sergei Bondarchuk
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Actor: Christopher Plummer, Jack Hawkins, Orson Welles, Rod Steiger, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles Jack HawkinsDirector: Sergei Bondarchuk
Primary Contributor: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles Jack Hawkins
Primary Contributor: Rod Steiger
Primary Contributor: Christopher Plummer
Primary Contributor: Orson Welles
Primary Contributor: Jack Hawkins
Primary Contributor: Virginia McKenna
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); Russian (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Import, Limited Collector's Edition, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 128 minutes
Published: 2007
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Atrium Art
Product features:
- - English audio & subtitles
- - NTSC (USA and Canada)
DVD Reviews of WATERLOO - by Sergei Bondarchuk (Import)
DVD Review: Waterloo (1970): "I've been in this position before at Marengo - I lost the battle in 1960, but I won it back by 1968!!!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, I just finished watching the 1970 movie 'Waterloo' with Rod Steiger (Bonny), Christopher Plummer (Wellesley), and Orson Welles (Harry Lime), and some Russian fellow as Bluecher. The movie is a period piece, now in more ways than one. The acting is a little ham-handed (especially the scene where Wellington confronts the Guardsman who's stolen a piggy), and Steiger is workable, if scenary chewing Napoleon. Plummer's hair should have been black and he should have smiled less.
Anyways, what struck me is that Steiger's Bonaparte is really a metaphor for Nixon and his fate. They both enjoyed early success, then inglorious defeat and retreat, only to enjoy a unexpected comeback after rallying their troops and taking the fight to their enemies, who are many and cannot be reasoned with. Nixoleon flees Elba, off the coast of San Clemente, and as the Man on Horseback rides through the Alps from San Deigo to Miami, and thence Washington, which had been burned by the British the year before (1814/1967). Both Bonny & Dick enjoy the vast support of the 'silent majority' of everyday Frenchmen, so no need to negotiate here. When King Welles informs, through messengers, that Napoleon is committing treason by moving against the monarchy and its foreign allies, Nixon (I mean, Steiger) replies, 'he who saves a nation can do no wrong', that pretty much seals the deal. The few times where Steiger rages to his staff, in glorious self-pity or otherwise, are also faintly 'Nixonian' ...
So Napoleon steals a march on is besotted, dancing Democratic allies (the Eastern Establishment 'Elites') and proceeds to savage the Prussians in the election of 1968. But he has less success against the Havard-educated British & their German troops ('Nixon's Germans', a newly formed regiment in the Imperial Guard, had yet to receive its colors). Four years later, he decides to finish the job, and overconfident with his huge lead and initial success, he underestimates his enemies, who again are legion, hate America, and have long hair, sideburns, and haven't bathed in a long time, just like the Scot's Grey's & Coldstream Guards in the movie. Furthur, right before the battle begins, there is a scene where the British Guards drink gin, 'complements of His Majesty' (the ghost of King Jack), while Union Brigade's General Ponsonby enjoys some strong snuff with a fellow officer. See, I told you - Nixon's enemies are indeed subtance abusing, dope smoking malcontents who hate America. I knew it - damn hippies ruin everything, and soon _they'll_ be in charge ...
So Bonhomme Richard ('Bonny Dick') orders the assualt on the Washington Post headquarters - sans plombe! - located in the Chateau d'Hougoumont, where Naval Lieutenant Woodward & Captain Bernstein drink tea with Bergamont and lead their defending Establishment Guards by following the money. They meet with their couriers Diane Sawyer, Richard Ober, Patrick Grey, and finally Mark Felt in the chateau's parking garage. In a meta-battle that lasts all day, the half-empty glass of Chateau Briand and plate of Rochefort waver but do not fall to the deck, and the day is saved by a piece of tape, followed by another revealing tape some 18.5 minutes long.
Elsewhere, in La Haye Saint, where Lieutenants Jack Anderson of the Elysian Merry-Go-'Round and Daniel Ellsberg of New York Times slowly release the 'Bastille Papers', the Plumbers have better luck and stop the leaks by breaking into the psychiatrist's farmhouse. Hilarity ensues ...
Irish Chief of Staff Larry O'Brien sets up his command post in the Watergate Hotel, situated conveniently on a reverse slope. The Corsican Ogre sends the IRS, FBI, and CIA cavalry regiments against the effete snobs of British Line newspaper regiments, but the latter dutifully stonewall and form squares. The cavarly pass through the lines but must retreat, unable to find the Moulin d'Hughes.
Finally, exasperated & mis-medicated, the Emperor orders his Imperial Guard, in the form of his Cabinet, the Plumbers, and ultimately everyone else but himself, to storm the weakened and cowed British 'vital center', but the day is late, and upon command General Archibald Cox, aided by Sub-Altern Butterfield, reveal the hitherto reverse slope-hidden fresh Watergate Brigade ('The Tapes') and counter-attack, defeating the Garde Imperiale for the first time it its history, accompanied the phrase 'merde' and other Nixonian 'expletive deleteds'. Ah, the Garde ... slowly taking losses but somehow loyal to the end, refusing to testify ('surrender') and taking one for their Emperor and his Imperial Presidency. Nixon's Plumbers and Christopher Plummer are in fact not related, but it is an odd coincidence, is it not?
In the aftermath of the battle, Napoleon prays with Henry Kissenger, who wrote his PhD thesis on Metternich & the Congress of Vienna called 'A World Restored', and rides off in the horse drawn carriage 'Air France One' to permanent exile in San Clemente, where he gives interviews to his British captors until his untimely death. The End.
Description of WATERLOO - by Sergei Bondarchuk (Import)
Russia released, NTSC (USA and Canada), ALL REGION, DIGITALLY REMASTERED, Anamorphic WIDESCREEN. AUDIO OPTIONS: Dolby Digital 5.1 ENGLISH (movie is completely in English) and Dolby Digital 5.1 RUSSIAN (voice-over). Original Russian SYNOPSIS: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, Arthur Welsley was victorious in Spain, but has never faced Napoleon. Welsley stands between Napoleon with a mixed army of Prussians, Mercenaries, Brits and Belgians. Napoleon's victory will plunge Europe back into a long term war. The two meet at Waterloo where the fate of Europe will be decided.Bestsellers in DVD
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