May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.
Tristan Delus
Denis Podalydès
Patrice Gueniffey
Jacques-Olivier Boudon
Thierry Lenz
Pierre Branda
Charles-Éloi Vial
Jean-Marie Rouart
François Houdececk
Chantal Prévot
Émilie Robbe