Conquest
The Love Story of Marie Walewska
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10/22/1937Runtime
113 minsOverview
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.
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A sweeping historical romance that traces the doomed affair between a Polish noblewoman and Napoleon, caught between personal desire and national duty. The film luxuriates in the emotional complexity of a woman used as a political pawn, turning what could be mere scandal into a portrait of impossible choices.
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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
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