Napoleonic Wars - Trailer

Type: docudrama Year of production: 2012 Number of episodes: 4 Directed by: Pavel Tupik Written by: Yaroslav Tinchenko, Valeriy Babich Director of photography: Dmitriy Kiptilyu Music by: Boris Kukoba Producers: Valeriy Babich , Vlad Riashyn The project is dedicated to one of the most remarkable and dramatic periods in history -- the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1815. They were a continuation of the wars originally sparked off by the French Revolution of 1789 and threw Europe’s armies into mobilization on an unprecedented scale. The Coup d’Etat on 9 November 1799 put France into the hands of a man endowed with a natural genius as a commander and almost unlimited ambition. The ’old order’ of Europe was, at the time, in chaos and disunity, with governments operating independently of others, each engaged in the short-term pursuit of private gain and nationalist policies. These factors, together with the powerful army created by Napoleon, combi