Monsieur N.
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| Original title | Monsieur N. |
| Country of production | Great Britain , France |
| original language | French , English , Corsican |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Antoine de Caunes |
| script | Rene Manzor |
| production | Pierre Kubel |
| music | Stephan Eicher |
| camera | Pierre Aïm |
| cut | Joële Van Effenterre |
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Monsieur N. is a British-French historical drama with mystery elements, directed in 2003 by director Antoine de Caunes . The film addresses Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on St. Helena and suggests that he managed to escape to Louisiana , where he was married to an Englishwoman and died much later.
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Most of the plot outlines the period of exile of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the island of St. Helena from 1815 until his death in 1821. It is told from the perspective of the fictional English officer Basil Heathcote, whose job it is to entourage Bonaparte and his officers to supervise. Napoleon is aware of his isolated position on the remote island and provokes the overcautious British Governor Hudson Lowe with taunts . The English friend Betsy Balcombe confesses her love to Napoleon, which Napoleon adamantly rejects. Albine de Montholon, heavily pregnant, was expecting a child from him at this time.
In an attempt to free the privateers who land on Sandy Bay, Napoleon sees a plot by his royal French enemies and reports him to Hudson Lowe. Napoleon's best friend Franceschi Cipriani is killed in an arsenic attack . Napoleon retires for months and one day dies.
In 1840 the French government fulfilled the emperor's last wish to be buried in France and transferred his exhumed body to Paris . When visiting the coffin that has been laid out, Basil Heathcote suspects that Napoleon is still alive and that his Corsican friend Cipriani is being buried in the Dome of the Invalides instead . Visits to Hudson Lowe and Albine de Montholon reinforce his suspicions. A few months later he travels to Louisiana and visits Mr. Abell's large plantation. While he waits, he sees the young daughter of the house named Letizia (as Napoleon's mother was also called) and in the distance Mrs. Abell, aka Betsy Balcombe. A servant tells Heathcote that Mr. Abell has been dead four years. Heathcote leaves without speaking to his widow.
background
- The filming locations were in Paris and South Africa .
- The production amounted to 15.9 million US dollars .
Nominations
- 2004 nomination for best film music
- 2004 nomination for best camera
- 2004 nomination for best production design
- 2004 nomination for the best costume design
Web links
- Monsieur N. in the Internet Movie Database (English)