Conquest (1937)

6.6/10 113 min History Drama Romance

Overview

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.

Cast

Greta Garbo

Countess Marie Walewska

Charles Boyer

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte

Reginald Owen

Tallyrand

Alan Marshal

Capt. d'Ornano

Henry Stephenson

Count Anastas Walewski

Leif Erickson

Paul Lachinski

May Whitty

Laetitia Bonaparte

Maria Ouspenskaya

la Comtesse Pelagia Walewska

C. Henry Gordon

le Prince Poniatowski

Claude Gillingwater

Stephan

Vladimir Sokoloff

Dying soldier

George Houston

Grand Marshal George Duroc

George Davis

Grenadier (uncredited)

Scotty Beckett

Alexandre Walewska (uncredited)

Winifred Harris

Countess Augustus Walewska

Recommendations

Désirée
Waterloo
Mayerling
War and Peace
That Hamilton Woman
The Young Victoria
El Cid
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Current War
Miss Austen Regrets
Kitty Foyle
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Viceroy's House
Peter Ibbetson
Jane Eyre
Kings of the Sun
Salome
Anastasia
The Last Rifleman
All This, and Heaven Too