The Burning of Moscow and the Fall of an Empire - NAPOLEON Clip | Joaquin Phoenix

[00:00:01][music] >> While taxing the French, I must wipe away my melancholy and begin the march to Moscow.

[00:00:11]I've convinced the heads of Europe of this resolution, and so I command the combined forces of France, Austria, Italy, Germany, and Poland.

[00:00:21]I see nothing but success in my future.

[00:00:48]>> [screaming] [screaming] [screaming] [screaming] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [music] [music] >> My dear Josephine, I'm writing to you because I have just won a great battle today.

[00:03:05]Tomorrow we will resume our advance.

[00:03:08]Moscow is now only 200 miles away, and I think of you all the while.

[00:03:13]All yours.

[00:03:32]We are at the grave of Austerlitz.

[00:04:40]Where [screaming] are you?

[00:04:50]>> [music] >> 500,000 souls live in this city, and they've all just left?

[00:05:19]Little boy, where are you?

[00:05:33]Don't be frightened.

[00:05:36]Just going to give you a little spanking.

[00:06:09]It's not very sporting, is it?

[00:06:12]For his honor and Russia's, not mine.

[00:06:19]His dignity to abandon defeat.

[00:07:05]Who did this?

[00:07:07]They did.

[00:07:10]They did not.

[00:07:12]Be sensible.

[00:07:16]Who set these fires?

[00:07:19]Your majesty, they did.

[00:07:25]>> [snorts] >> You do not have the brains to burn a city to negotiate with me.

[00:07:32]I didn't think you had the courage.

[00:07:40]Oh.

[00:07:41]Look at St. Petersburg.

[00:07:44]And have them burn that, too.

[00:07:47]We have let too much time slip away.

[00:07:52]We would be marching into the Russian winter with horses that are not raised for this weather.

[00:08:02]If we go back to Poland, we can wait out the winter months.

[00:08:08]Hm?

[00:08:09]>> [screaming] >> Napoleon, your letters are a soothing balm to my heart.

[00:08:25]I fear for you.

[00:08:27]Remember that I alone know your health, your fears.

[00:08:32]I thank you as tenderly as I will always love you.

[00:08:36]Josephine.

[00:08:39]My friend Josephine, friend, it is strange to write that word to you.

[00:08:47]You have always been so much more.

[00:08:58]Despite careful organization, there have been breakdowns in supply, we are suffering sickness, desertion, and famine.

[00:09:10]We are winning!

[00:09:24]Russ, we're Cossacks.

[00:09:26]Russ, Josephine, fortune has abandoned me.

[00:09:36]I know that it is what fate has for me.

[00:09:40]Your words rattle in my head.

[00:09:43]I am nothing without you.

[00:09:50]Of the 600,000 men you sent to Russia, only 40,000 have returned.

[00:09:57]Therefore, you have been exiled.

[00:10:01]You know in certain terms.

[00:10:16]>> [music]