Film Summary

Waterloo

Waterloo is a 1970 Soviet-Italian film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It is a film about events of Battle of Waterloo, and is famous for its magnificent battle scenes. It stars Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington with a cameo by Orson Welles as Louis XVIII of France. Other stars include Jack Hawkins as General Picton, Virginia McKenna as the Duchess of Richmond and Dan O'Herlihy as Marshal Ney. The film includes 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalrymen as it was said that, during its making, director Sergei Bondarchuk was in command of the seventh largest army in the world. Fifty circus stunt riders were used to perform the dangerous horse falls. These numbers brought an epic quality to the battle scenes.

Plot
The film opens on Chateau de Fontainebleau in 1814, after the disastrous Russian campaign and the defeat at Leipzig, with Paris besieged by the Austrians. Napoleon Bonaparte is urged by his marshals to abdicate. He totally refuse it, but upon hearing of the surrender of his last army under Auguste Marmont he realizes there is no hope anymore. Then he is banished to the island of Elba with a personal guard of 1000 men, but manages to escape and returns to France.

Marechal Ney, now serving the monarchy of the restored Bourbon king, is tasked with recapturing him. The two French armies meet, but instead of ordering his men to engage, Napoleon comes forward and asks Ney's men "if they want to kill their emperor." The soldiers immediately mutiny and Ney joins his former emperor. Napoleon arrives in Paris with crowds and King Louis flees for his life. Despite Napoleon's request for peace, the other European powers immediately declare war on him.

Napoleon invades Belgium to quickly defeat the Allied forces piecemeal before they can unite. Meanwhile, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , the commander of the British forces, attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball. One young officer, Lord Hay, is engaged to her daughter, and the Duchess begs Wellington to keep him away from the battlefield. The ball is interrupted by the Prussian commander von Müffling, who announces that Napoleon has crossed the border. Wellington realizes that Napoleon has got between himself and the Prussian forces. Hastily looking at his map, he decides to attempt a stand at Quatre-Bras at the same time openly admiring Napoleon's genius.

The next morning, Napoleon is informed that the rain has made the ground too soft for the French cannon. The attack is delayed. The battle starts shortly after 11.30 am with cannon fire from the French. Napoleon then sends a diversionary infantry attack against Wellington's right flank, where the British have turned the farmhouse of Hougoumont into a fort. However Wellington does not take the bait and refuses to weaken the center to support his flank.
Then what is Napoleon decision to defeat Wellington in this very decisive situation?

Production and expenses
Columbia Pictures published a 28-page, full-colour pictorial guide when it released Waterloo in 1970. According to the guidebook, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis had difficulty finding financial funds for the massive expenses until he finally began talks with the Russians in the late 1960s and reached agreement with the Mosfilm organization. Final costs were over £12 million (UK) (same about US $38.3 million in making Waterloo,for this time this film is one of the most expensive movies ever made.
To recreate the battlefield authentically, the Russians bulldozed away two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings. To create the mud, more than six miles of underground irrigation piping was specially laid. Most of the battle scenes were filmed using five Panavision cameras simultaneously from ground level, 100 foot towers, a helicopter, and an overhead railway built right across the location.

Moral Value
Do not attack each other find the war solutions by peace diplomacy
Be obedient to the leader
Decide problem solving properly and quickly

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Question
1. Who is the main person in the waterloo film?
   A.  Louise XVIII of France
   B.  Dino de Laurentiis
   C.  Napoleon Bonaparte II
   D.  Duke of Wllington
   E.  The first French emperor

2. How many foots soldiers are needed to produce this film?
   A.  lim┬(x→∞) (300x^2+600x 1/(72√8000x))
    B.  15.000 cos 0
    C.  lon 10000
    D.  7
    E. ∛2333

3. Who is the second in command for French army?
  A.  Napoleon Bonaparte
  B.  Duchess of Richmond
  C.  Von Muffling
  D.  Marechal Ney
  E.  Marechal Soult

4. How much the expenses to produce this film?
  A.  £38,8 millions
  B.  ¥38,8 millions
  C.  €38,8 millions
  D.  ₣38,8 millions
  E.  $38,8 millions

5. Why does Napoleon urged to abdicate
  A.  Because his son replace him
  B.  Because his mother replace him
  C.  Because Paris has besieged by Austria
  D.  Because US has sign the declaration of Independent
  E.  Because his mother in law went mad