In a mammoth restoration task for one of cinema’s most audacious and elusive treasures, a team of obsessives has spent 12 years recreating the original seven-hour cut of Abel Gance’s 1927 silent classic, “Napoleon”.”It’s an act of madness,” admits Georges Mourier, head of the 2.5 million-euro (three-million-dollar) project.
Source: Epic film restoration for 7-hour Napoleon classic – France 24