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{{short description|1961 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Napoleon II, the Eagle
| image          = Napoléon II l'Aiglon.jpg
| caption        =
| director       = [[Claude Boissol]]
| producer       = [[Georges Glass]]
|based_on = ''Napoleon II, the Eagle'' by [[André Castelot]]
| writer         = [[Paul Andréota]]<br />Claude Boissol
| starring       = [[Bernard Verley]]<br />[[Danièle Gaubert]]<br />[[Danièle Gaubert]]
| music          = [[Paul Bonneau]] <br> [[Fred Freed]]
| cinematography = [[Roger Fellous]]
| editing        = [[Louis Devaivre]]
| studio = Films Matignon
| distributor    = [[Pathé Consortium Cinéma]]
| released       = {{Film date|1961|11|01|df=y}}
| runtime        = 125 minutes
| country        = Italy<br/>France
| language       = French
| budget         =
| gross          = 2,029,634 admissions (France)<ref name="marais">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-jean-marais-c22695355|title=Box Office Figures for Jean Marais films|website=Box Office Story}}</ref>
}}
'''''Napoleon II, the Eagle''''' (French: '''''Napoléon II, l'Aiglon''''', in English ''Napoleon II, the eaglet (or young eagle)'' is a 1961 [[French language|French]] [[historical film|historical]] [[drama film]] directed by [[Claude Boissol]]  and starring [[Bernard Verley]], [[Jean Marais]] and [[Danièle Gaubert]]. The scenario was written by [[Paul Andréota]] and based on a novel of [[André Castelot]].<ref>[http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Napoleon_II_l_aiglon_1961_rev.html Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1961)] at the ''Films de France''</ref> <ref>Goble p.74</ref> The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Wolf Witzemann]].
==Synopsis==
The film portrays the life of [[Napoleon II]], considered [[Emperor of France]] by [[Bonapartists]], who lived most of his life in [[Vienna]] under the title the [[Duke of Reichstadt]].
== Cast ==
* [[Bernard Verley]] as [[Duke of Reichstadt]]
* [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]] as Gustav von Neipperg
* [[René Dary]] as Dietrichstein
* [[Danièle Gaubert]] as Thérèse Pèche
* [[Jean Marais]] as [[Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon|General de Montholon]]
* [[Georges Marchal]] as [[Adam Albert von Neipperg|General Neipperg]]
* [[Liliane Patrick]] as [[Countess Camerata]]
* [[Jean-Marc Thibault]] as [[Napoleon I]]
* [[Paul Hubschmid]] as Prokesch
* [[Jacques Jouanneau]] as Esterhazy
* [[Marianne Koch]] as [[Empress Marie-Louise]]
* [[Josef Meinrad]] as [[Emperor Francis II]]
* [[Sabine Sinjen]] as [[Princess Sophie of Bavaria|Archduchess Sophie]]
* [[Paul Cambo]] as Ambassador of France
* [[Jean-Pascal Duffard]] as the 7-year-old duke
* [[François Maistre]] as [[Metternich]]
* [[Yves Bocquillon]] as the 3-year-old duke
* [[Jacques Fabbri]] as Doctor Malfati
* [[Raymond Gérôme]] as Apponyi
* [[Anthony Stuart (actor)|Anthony Stuart]] as [[Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley|Lord Crowley]], ambassador of England
* [[René Clermont]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==Bibliography==
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0055219}}
* [http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Napoleon_II_l_aiglon_1961_rev.html Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1961)] at the ''Films de France''
[[Category:1961 films]]
[[Category:1960s French-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Claude Boissol]]
[[Category:Films set in the 1810s]]
[[Category:Films set in the 1820s]]
[[Category:Films set in the 1830s]]
[[Category:Depictions of Napoleon on film]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Klemens von Metternich]]
[[Category:1960s historical drama films]]
[[Category:French historical drama films]]
[[Category:1960s French films]]
[[Category:Pathé films]]
[[Category:Films based on Belgian novels]]
[[Category:Films set in Vienna]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Napoleon II]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Francis I of Austria]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma]]
[[Category:Films scored by Paul Bonneau]]
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