This mini series is incredibly strange. I have never heard of it, it is rarely spoken of, it seems to have been rather low in budget, and yet every stage of its execution is tremendous and its probably the best "movie" about Napoleon other than Waterloo.
@rickmaurer87264 жыл бұрын
You know a movie to tv show is low budget when all they can do is an empty room with little to no decoration.
@FiasaPower4 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's indeed a very good series.
@devdixit24404 жыл бұрын
Its actually very high budget. It was the most expensive European TV miniseries ever. Costing $46,330,000 to produce. And its not a suprise. The dialogue does feel a bit off sometimes because it was made in English, French and Italian. But the production quality is quite high, there are alot of battle scenes and accurate costumes.
@mulapare25934 жыл бұрын
@@devdixit2440 Not to mention the famous cast!
@ritaDas-xl4kz4 жыл бұрын
Seriously,you forget war and peace made by the director of waterloo,sergei bondarchuk,the 1964 one
@josephdunlap67474 жыл бұрын
The best portrayal of Napoleon in this A&E miniseries! Magnificent!
@maisonraider45932 жыл бұрын
This scene actually took place not in Paris but in Dresden Germany, in mid summer 1813, when Napoleon agreed to a truce with the Russians and Prussians after the battles of Lutzen and Bautzen, while Austria was still neutral. Metternich asked Napoleon to give up Ilyria, and agree to the repartition of both Poland and the confederation of the Rhine, both outrageous proposals that rendered any hard won treaties and sacrifices futile ( plus a marriage that did not guarantee peace) as well as exposing the austrian untrustworthiness. Metternich told him then that Austria would join the 6th coalition against him which it did, and the battle of Dresden followed. In that meeting Napoleon dismissed Metternich’s proposals out of hand and famously threw his hat to the floor, an act that was wrongly added in this movie in a previous meeting between Napoleon and the tsar.
@anthonyparadiso1a11 ай бұрын
When you're at war with a country that's trying to take over the continent, they won't trust you and vice versa. I guess the significance of the part of history that this scene recreates is that it shows how Diplomacy can work.
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
3:39 "On me?" I love the way Napoleon delivered that line. lol
@fdr1001005 жыл бұрын
Occupation is temporary but the ideas it leaves behind are everlasting
@CocoTaveras89754 жыл бұрын
DORIAN PRIME Well said and so true!
@andromilk26343 жыл бұрын
What ideas did the French leave, just by curiosity?
@SleepyCat13883 жыл бұрын
@@andromilk2634 the Napoleonic Code
@leonrothier66383 жыл бұрын
@@andromilk2634 Liberty
@troll51612 жыл бұрын
@@andromilk2634 liberty equality fraternity
@mizuha-chan41454 жыл бұрын
"If Austria dare to declare war on me, I will reduce Vienna to rubble." Instead to destroying Vienna, my army was destoryed at Leipzig. Curse you Austria!
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
Leipzig, of course, need not have happened....Napoleon had just won a HUGE victory in the Battle of Dresden, and he was going to march on Berlin and capture the city....his generals all balked and urged him to, instead, leave Germany and take the army to France....Napoleon told them this would be a disaster....the generals insisted.....Napoleon was correct, because on their way back to France, the French Army unknowingly ran right into the entire Allied Army....in the Battle of Leipzig, Napoleon was outnumbered by 5 to 3 and was lucky to escape with as many soldiers as he did.
@theeagleman94073 жыл бұрын
Your Emperor is insane 😂
@mizuha-chan41453 жыл бұрын
(I was pretending to be Napoleon when I wrote this
@isaacomnus8836 жыл бұрын
This portrayal of Metternich is the exact opposite to his character. The actor could do better playing Castlereigh.
@KaiserFranzJosefI5 жыл бұрын
He is far too arrogant.
@dimaswirantoraharjo25475 жыл бұрын
You mean Lord Castlereagh?
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
@@KaiserFranzJosefI You are right, Metternich was the model of placid demeanor. He himself wrote later that he simply replied to Napoleon's rejection by saying, "Then, Sire, you are lost."
@dewittbourchier71694 жыл бұрын
Indeed it shows a very arrogant and British distaste for the French that both Metternich and indeed many Austrians lacked which is probably why Napoleon identified them as the most truly lethal foe as they were far less emotional about Napoleonic France than everyone else.
@benmetternich3 жыл бұрын
AGREED!
@Penzensky11 ай бұрын
Julian Sands as Metternich. R.I.P.
@manuelromeroclose3 Жыл бұрын
RIP Julian Sands
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
None other than Metternich himself would upload this video.
@shirtless69344 жыл бұрын
In 1809, Austria did declare war on Napoleon, in the War of the Fifth Coalition. Napoleon did capture Vienna. Whether he reduced it to rubble, I have not been able to discover.
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
No. He didn't.
@richardmalcolm14574 жыл бұрын
But this scene takes place in the summer of 1813, not 1809. It's the War of the Sixth Coalition, not the Fifth. (Napoleon did no damage to Vienna when he took it back in 1809, or in 1805.)
@theeagleman94073 жыл бұрын
@@essessessesq 😂
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
@@richardmalcolm1457 only if he did, lol
@maisonraider45932 жыл бұрын
No he wasn’t that kind of person. In fact Bertier advised him to completely destroy the Austrian empire after Wagram, but Napoleon opted for a peace. A peace which the Austrian broke again, as they were used to.
@jo52956 жыл бұрын
your majesty is free to do as he pleases of course. Oh, thank you so much... Un vrai français quoi..
@florinivan6907 Жыл бұрын
0:12 recruiting teens for combat duty ages 15-17 was the norm in that age in all militaries. For example many of the Royal Marines at Trafalgar were below 18. What was unusual was recruiting primarily just teens. Before only about 10% of new enlistments in the french forces were below 18. But by this point of the war France had mostly run out of adult aged men and was forced to primarily recruit teens including many aged 16-17.
@msmolyansky5 жыл бұрын
The guy who plays him is not portraying him really well. He was much more intelligent. Probably the best diplomat of all times .
@ParthShende5 жыл бұрын
Apart from Talleyrand
@essessessesq5 жыл бұрын
true. Metternich is Kissinger's idol.
@kennethho8884 жыл бұрын
Jerry Jaye Henry Kissinger has said that he admires Metternich before ??
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
@@kennethho888 Yes. Kissinger wrote his doctoral dissertation about Metternich, full of praise and admiration for him. Kissinger published it as his first book.....www.amazon.com/World-Restored-Metternich-Castlereagh-Problems/dp/1626549788
@kostpap35544 жыл бұрын
You forget the only man Metternich though of as the only one to oppose him. Count Giovanni Capo D' Istria.
@mabusharn37614 жыл бұрын
The glorious era of mutton-chops.
@junesilvermanb29793 жыл бұрын
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@archieames19684 жыл бұрын
The actual meeting was far more interesting and had far better lines than this scene. I don't understand why they didn't just recreate it verbatim.
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
@@757hh Metternich wrote the discussion down in the memo he wrote afterward to Emperor Francis.....it is in "The Memoirs of Prince Metternich" published in 1881 by Charles Scribner & Sons publisher, in NYC......large city libraries would have it....NY, Chicago, Cleveland;;;
@delavalmilker Жыл бұрын
Napoleon seemed unable to believe that his father-in-law would declare war on him. Despite ample historical evidence of such things happening.
@anthonyparadiso1a11 ай бұрын
Either that or he's trying to convince Metternich that his army is stronger than it is. Napoleon is on his hind legs making a desperate attempt to preserve his stranglehold on Europe.
@JohnInnocentSmythАй бұрын
dialogue is a bit clunky, but whoever it is playing metternich is magnificent. The look of disdain in his face as he walks with his head held straight and high above the rubble
@CaptainAhab1172 жыл бұрын
Austria's original peace terms were actually much more reasonable, they asked for only a few concessions. It seems the writers wanted to make Napoleon more sympathetic.
@christopherdenniston7464 жыл бұрын
Give Austria it's due, no matter how many defeats, no matter how useless it's Army & it's commanders, it couldn't wait to to lose again😂
@KaiserFranzJosefI3 жыл бұрын
It won...
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
@@KaiserFranzJosefI with the help of many other nations lol
@bukovic19713 жыл бұрын
@@AbrahamLincoln4 so what - you die with 56, he lives till 86 lol
@phillawrence51482 жыл бұрын
@@AbrahamLincoln4 Regardless, they won 🤣
@AEIOU05 Жыл бұрын
@@AbrahamLincoln4 ...who couldn't have won without Austria's support
@choysakanto67924 жыл бұрын
Isn't this already set during the eve of the Battle of Dresden in 1813? That was the time Metternich went to Nappy and told him that if he does not comply with the terms set on him, _Austria will be obliged to declare war on France._
@mulapare25934 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is right before the battle of Dresden, during the armistice of Plasswitz, June - July 1813.
@muskduh3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video
@ComedyJakob5 жыл бұрын
Metternich: Vienna is kinda like the Jedi. Napoleon: I will reduce Vienna to rubble. Metternich: Then you are lost. I will do what I must. *draws lightsaber* Napoleon: You will try.
@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser4 жыл бұрын
"I am France"
@theeagleman94073 жыл бұрын
@@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser did he reduce Egypt to Rubble
@NixonRules963 Жыл бұрын
I wish they included the scene where Napoleon threw his hat to the ground in fury during this confrontation
@maisonraider4593 Жыл бұрын
They wrongly linked that event with a previous scene where Napoleon meets the tsar and throws his hat after an argument.
@mohdnoorazli79984 жыл бұрын
I am waiting a scene Napoleon thrown his hat on ground with his fury.. None.. Expecting Napoleon more in temper while metternich could be more calm but it's scene not portrayed on my expectations
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
Yes, Metternich himself wrote. in a piece about Napoleon, that Nappy once threw his famous hat onto the floor in disgust at some remark by Metternich.....He wrote that Nappy kept looking at him and then at the hat, as though Nappy expected Count Metternich to pick up the hat....which, Metternich wrote, "I declined to do.";;;;;hahaha!
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
@@essessessesq Napoleon had hus tantrums lol
@essessessesq3 жыл бұрын
@@AbrahamLincoln4 He did, but Metternich wrote in his Memoir that the outbursts by Nappy were staged, to create an effect
@ExVeritateLibertas4 жыл бұрын
Metternich would never have spoken to Napoleon in such a rude, undiplomatic manner, nor turned his back on him and walked out without being invited to do so; most often it is up to the higher ranking person to end the meeting and leave the room first. He would not have used the term "conditions" as Austria was not yet in a position to impose any - only to offer proposals. This scene is pure woke egalitarianism.
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
true! The actual conversation was reported by Metternich to Emperor Francis in the memo i mentioned above, giving the source.
@soamics44503 жыл бұрын
didn’t napoleon throw his hat to the ground?
@delavalmilker Жыл бұрын
Yes, he did. And when Metternich refused to pick it up (as protocol at the time demanded), Napoleon became even more agitated.
@KhudurLagamar3 жыл бұрын
Oh, how undiplomatic for the part of Metternich...
@attiepollard78473 жыл бұрын
It was nothing undiplomatic at all it was more of a blunt diplomatic gesture
@26789184 жыл бұрын
This couldn't be more historically innacurate
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
@@757hh the treaty part
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
0:23 Smug lol.
@SimonBaddeley9 күн бұрын
Later Napoleon said that agreeing the truce that followed this epic meeting was his greatest mistake [ref: Wolfram Siemann's brilliant biography of Metternich (2019)]. The 'interval' that Metternich negotiated with supreme diplomacy gave time for a coalition (sixth and last) of European powers that Napoleon failed to pick off one by one leading to his defeat at Leipzig. Metternich had the measure of Bonaparte as no other statesman, and was his political nemesis, though of course the heavy lifting cost the lives of thousands more. This is a link to a fine documentary drama with really good historical analysis about that famous Dresden meeting kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4mldWOPgbGMb5Ysi=xKa8i22Fmz8c6jIm
@FalconRS6 жыл бұрын
Don't go to Russia, if you want win in the Europe. Don't go there. Is it so much to ask? But everyone must go there...
@comechocolate6 жыл бұрын
flownet07 so we must go visit
@isaacomnus8836 жыл бұрын
Hahah
@isaacomnus8836 жыл бұрын
TheLEFE I’m sure that was why
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
Well, Russia ain't in the E.U, So I aree.
@AbrahamLincoln43 жыл бұрын
@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE lmao
@firstlastyoutube6 жыл бұрын
moment 4:41
@Randall20234 жыл бұрын
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
@shelbynamels9734 жыл бұрын
Is that Heino Ferch?
@fansofst.maximustheconfess82264 жыл бұрын
Yes. Jawohl.
@Kolonel_4 жыл бұрын
Everyone remember the Der Untergang movie he played as Albert Speer
@manuelpineda906711 ай бұрын
Can't wait for Joaquim Phoenix to try to top this.
@victoriadesamotracia10 ай бұрын
He did not
@theeagleman94073 жыл бұрын
How are you metternich?
@clausesanta50423 жыл бұрын
Fine, thank you. And you?
@theeagleman94073 жыл бұрын
@@clausesanta5042 Fine thanks
@clausesanta50423 жыл бұрын
@@theeagleman9407 Alright. Let's talk about future of Europe.
@theeagleman94073 жыл бұрын
@@clausesanta5042 the future could be better than the painfull past
@JesusPascualAntonioLuque-px7zg6 ай бұрын
Chee date cuenta vivo en argentina y hablo castellano y no español,gracias
@cleyton66485 жыл бұрын
Napoleaão jamais concordaria com esses termos
@anguscovoflyer954 жыл бұрын
napoleon was stupid to think he could still win in 1813.
@archivesoffantasy55604 жыл бұрын
He did still beat armies 4-5 times his size in many battles in the 1814 campaign But the coalition could afford to take massive loss and continue. Napoleon in 1813 had no room for any error.
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Correct, and he even won a stupendous victory in 1813 at the Battle of Dresden....he should have accepted Austria's generous peace offer, but refused it.....he admitted at St. Helena that he had been a fool to turn down that offer
@archivesoffantasy55604 жыл бұрын
Jerry Jaye but how many times have the coalitions shown themselves to hate Napoleon and the revolutionary reforms he promoted ? My point is would they really have stopped there and let Napoleon remain Emperor of just France. They would likely try to then remove him altogether. This is speculation tho.
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
@@archivesoffantasy5560 Yes, you make a good point. I would just add, though, that Austria now had its Princess as Napoleon's wife....and if Napoleon remained emperor, then his SON would be the next emperor....and that son was the grandson of the Emperor Francis of Austria.....That gave Austria a strong motive to keep Nappy in charge....plus, Metternich agreed with Napoleon the many times that Nappy told Mett. "I have stopped the Revolution. After me, it will resume its advance."....Metternich knew that Napoleon was right. As its was, the Bourbons were kicked off the throne again just 15 years after Nappy's defeat at Waterloo. The Prussians and Russians HATED Nappy. But the Austrians did not. So Austria might have been able to keep him in charge......It appears from Metternich's private correspondence with Francis that he tried hard to do just that.
@archivesoffantasy55604 жыл бұрын
Jerry Jaye Emperor Francis of Austria still declared war on Napoleon when his daughter was married to him. Honestly Napoleon wasn’t harsh enough on some of his enemies
@cleyton66487 ай бұрын
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@fabrizioriva12815 жыл бұрын
Napoleon didn't see his end coming: it was his limit, apart his ego and lack of vision
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
you are right......on St. Helena, he admitted that his ego got the best of him and made him believe he was invincible.
@fabrizioriva12814 жыл бұрын
@@essessessesq I think, at the end of the story, he paid the fact of coming from a backwater place with narrow-minded people
@essessessesq3 жыл бұрын
@@fabrizioriva1281 well, Nap, knew he was from the lower nobility of Corsica, and that the high aristocrats looked down on him....He believed he could remain in power only if those snobs were afraid of him.
@fabrizioriva12813 жыл бұрын
@@essessessesq Possibly this is another problem with him: thinking first about himself, and not his nation. If he had remained just First Consul, instead of the masquerade of being an Emperor, France would have a chance to better face the hurdles, and Napoleon himself would never end his life on a desert island.
@essessessesq3 жыл бұрын
@@fabrizioriva1281 you are correct, like most politicians and leaders, Napoleon was VERY self-centered and had a huge ego.