Plot. Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer) launches an unsuccessful seduction of the Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo), who is married to a much older man (Henry Stephenson), but she resists until convinced that giving in will save Poland.
Conquest
1937 ‧ Romance/Drama ‧ 1h 53m
6.5/10 · IMDb
100% · Rotten Tomatoes
In this historical drama, the home of Countess Marie Walewska (Greta Garbo) is briefly overrun with Russian Cossacks before fleeing the oncoming Polish forces. When it is discovered that Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer) is smitten with her from...
Release date: October 22, 1937 (USA)
Director: Clarence Leon Brown
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Loews Cineplex Entertainment
Based on: Pani Walewska; by Wacław Gąsiorowski (1904 book); Helen Jerome (1933 play)
Box office: $2,141,000
Countess Marie Walewska : I came to you as a woman, sire. As a woman desperate in the cause of her country. Forgive me, sire. There was no other way. But, I ...