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The Emperor's New Clothes

The world's most powerful man is about to fight his greatest battle... between love and glory.

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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.

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Released
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Box office
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Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • exile
  • napoleon bonaparte
  • 19th century

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Director

Alan Taylor

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Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereSource: IMDB (Locarno)11 Aug 2001

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The Emperor's New Clothes was released on 11 August 2001.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/26/2025

    7/10

    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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