The Night with the Emperor

The Night with the Emperor

1936 · 90 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has drawn an unflattering caricature of the French emperor during his Erfurt conference with the Czar and several local princes.

Directed by Erich Engel

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