The Opportunists
Literary adaptation: During the post Napoleonic era, the ambitious and cynical strive for their place up the social ladder, among them former soldiers and officers who want their Emperor back. A forme…
The Opportunists
Literary adaptation: During the post Napoleonic era, the ambitious and cynical strive for their place up the social ladder, among them former soldiers and officers who want their Emperor back. A former colonel who has achieved prestige in the Napoleonic army does not want to serve the Bourbons after the emperor's banishment. He makes his way through life with matchmaking and inheritance scams, marries his uncle's rich widow and ends up in poverty again after a bad speculation. —Filmdienst
The Opportunists
Drama
Film Details
Literary adaptation: During the post Napoleonic era, the ambitious and cynical strive for their place up the social ladder, among them former soldiers and officers who want their Emperor back. A former colonel who has achieved prestige in the Napoleonic army does not want to serve the Bourbons after the emperor's banishment. He makes his way through life with matchmaking and inheritance scams, marries his uncle's rich widow and ends up in poverty again after a bad speculation.
—Filmdienst.