Jeniec Europy is a Polish historical film based on the novel by Juliusz Dankowski. It was released in 1989.
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Plot
Year 1815. Napoleon I, after the defeat at Waterloo, is exiled to the Isle of St. Helena. He is accompanied by servants and the most faithful friends. They are assigned the Longwood Estate. A new governor, Hudson Lowe, appears on the island with allied representatives: Count Balmain from Russia, Baron von Sturmer from Austria and the Marquis of Montchenu from France. There are skirmishes between the governor and the prisoner.
Cast
Roland Blanche as Napoleon Bonaparte
Vernon Dobtcheff as Hudson Lowe
François Berléand as General Montholon
Didier Flamand as General Bertrand
Ronald Guttman as General Gougaud
Jean-Jacques Moreau as Marchand
Catriona MacColl as Lady Lowe
Maria Gładkowska as Madame Montholon
Isabelle Petit-Jacques as Madame Bertrand
Georges Claisse as Thomas Reade
Jay Benedict as Captain Henry Fox
Jean-François Delacour as Las Cases
Daniel Langlet as Marquise de Montchenu
Piotr Krukowski as Sturmer
Czeslaw Wojtala as Duke Balmain
Marek Sikora as Santini
Arkadiusz Bazak as Admiral Cockburn