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Kubrick's Napoleon – the greatest movie never made

Theo Zenou on Kubrick’s fascination with the fallen Emperor

1 May 2021

9:00 AM

1 May 2021

9:00 AM

Two centuries ago — on 5 May 1821 — Napoleon Bonaparte died in a rat-infested house. The fallen Emperor had spent his final years exiled on the British outpost of St Helena. Yet Napoleon’s ignominious last act was only the beginning of his legend. A recent data-driven study, published by Cambridge University Press, crowned him the second most significant figure in history, after Jesus no less.

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