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  • The Legend of the Eagle (1911)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Legend of the Eagle (1911)
Short | Short, Drama
This film, enhanced by beautiful landscape where the action runs, is of a remarkable quality. It shows with perfection an emotional episode of the wars of the First Empire, showing what strict discipline was imposed upon the army by ...See moreThis film, enhanced by beautiful landscape where the action runs, is of a remarkable quality. It shows with perfection an emotional episode of the wars of the First Empire, showing what strict discipline was imposed upon the army by Napoleon I. He never pardoned a disobedience to his orders, also, whoever was caught in a state of intoxication or lacked respect for women in the enemy's country was shot instantly. The army has been going for a long while through Austrian country. The sun was hot, the soldiers tired. Grenadier Gridart is resting in the garden of an inn. The wine was cool and nice. He drinks more than necessary. Wine and sun have intoxicated the grenadier, who goes to his camp wobbling. Going through a field, Gridart meets a young peasant woman who was coming from the village. The wine makes him lose his head and forget his orders. He wants to embrace the woman. She defends herself. He is obstinate and brutal. The husband arrives and hits the grenadier a blow on the head which sends him to the ground. It is there that he was found by a canteen woman. She picks him up, and tries by supporting him to bring him to camp. The task is difficult. He can hardly stand on his feet. Arriving by a small bridge they stop. Unfortunately the Emperor passes there and sees the bleeding grenadier, whom he questions. The soldier says he was hit by a peasant, without cause. The Emperor commands that the peasant be caught and put to death. Gridart, brought to camp, is taken care of at the ambulance. He is sober. He reflects. A man is going to die unjustly by his fault. He has remorse for his cowardice. His conscience of an honest man revolts. He arises, has himself brought before the Emperor, avows that he disobeyed his orders, got intoxicated and that the peasant had hit him in defense of his wife. Discipline is inflexible. The grenadier is shot. In the woods in a green road the grenadier lays, his breast pierced by bullets. In a supreme moment of admiration for his heroic loyalty the Austrian peasant and his wife cover the unlucky grenadier's body with flowers. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Georges d'Esparbès (tale)
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Updated Sep 7, 1911
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Nov 13, 1911 (United States)

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