Désirée

• Movies
• 1954-11-16
• EN
• Released
• 2h 50m
• US
• Drama - Romance

• 6.4
• 45
• Trailer

Production

20th Century Fox

Tagline

The life...the women...the conquests of Napoleon!

Storyline

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.