Sergei Bondarchuk	...	(Director)
Vittorio Bonicelli	...	(Writer)
Rod Steiger	...	Napoleon Bonaparte
Christopher Plummer	...	Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Orson Welles	...	Louis XVIII
Jack Hawkins	...	General Sir Thomas Picton
Virginia McKenna	...	Duchess of Richmond
Dan O'Herlihy	...	Marshal Michel Ney
Rupert Davies	...	Gordon
Philippe Forquet	...	La Bedoyere
Gianni Garko	...	Drouot
Ivo Garrani	...	Soult
Ian Ogilvy	...	De Lancey
Michael Wilding	...	Colonel Sir William Ponsonby
Sergo Zaqariadze	...	Blucher
Terence Alexander	...	Uxbridge
Andrea Checchi	...	Sauret
Donal Donnelly	...	O'Connor (as Donald Donnelly)
Charles Millot	...	Grouchy
Yevgeni Samojlov	...	Cambronne
Oleg Vidov	...	Tomlinson
Charles Borromel	...	Mulholland
Peter Davies	...	Lord Hay
Veronica De Laurentiis	...	Magdalene Hall
Vladimir Druzhnikov	...	Gerard (as Vladimir Drujnikov)
Willoughby Gray	...	Ramsey
Roger Green	...	Duncan
Orso Maria Guerrini	...	Officer
Richard Heffer	...	Mercer
Orazio Orlando	...	Constant
John Savident	...	Muffling
Jeffrey Wickham	...	Colborne (as Jeffry Wickham)
Susan Wood	...	Sarah
Gennadi Yudin	...	Chactas (as Ghennady Yudin)
Rino Bellini	...	Coulincourt
Ferdinando Giovannoni	...	Art Director
A. Menyalshchikov	...	Art Director
Semyon Valyushok	...	Art Director
Aldo Cecconi	...	King Charles X
Massimo Della Torre	...	Cambaceres
Rodolfo Lodi	...	Joseph Fouche
Giorgio Sciolette	...	Marshal Berthier
Nino Rota	...	Composer
Armando Nannuzzi	...	Cinematographer
Richard C. Meyer	...	Editor

Summary: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but has never faced Napoleon. Wellington stands between Napoleon with a makeshift Anglo-Allied army and the Prussians. A Napoleon victory will plunge Europe back into a long term war. An allied victory could bring long term peace to Europe. The two meet at Waterloo where the fate of Europe will be decided.