

The Emperor's New Clothes
The world's most powerful man is about to fight his greatest battle... between love and glory.
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
TMDB
6.8/10
45 votes
IMDb
6.8/10
2,784 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
73%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
60/100
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $661,903
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- exile
- napoleon bonaparte
- 19th century
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Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
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Awards & recognition
- Total wins
- 1
- 1 win
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Release dates
SwitzerlandCH
- PremiereSource: IMDB (Locarno)11 Aug 2001
Frequently asked questions
The Emperor's New Clothes was released on 11 August 2001.
- C7/10
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6/26/2025
Exiled Napoleon (Sir Ian Holm) and his aides have come up with a cunning plan to get him from exile back into the heart of Paris where he can resurrect his imperial ambitions and restore his country to greatness. They have procured the services of an erstwhile deck hand who is the doppelgänger of the emperor and who has agreed to swap places. Carefully smuggled back to the mainland, the impoverished traveller has to …
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