INDIGENES and MVC currently co-producean ambitious series about the great historical battles. This series is the fruit of international collaboration. The movie TRAFALGAR (52') is the first part of this new series. Two other episodes are already in the pipeline : “Actium”, in -31 B.C., a famous battle where Mark Antony and Cleopatra face Octavius, and “Salamis”, in -480 B.C, where Greeks and persians fight, Themistocles against Xerxes. These two new movies (52') will be produced using the same process that mixed the real and the virtual in TRAFALGAR : “Spatial Compositing”. The actors are filmed on a green background then harmoniously inlaid in a 3D setting.
TRAFALGAR Docu-drama : 52'
1805, Europe is under Napoleonic domination, but England resists.
To conquer the world is the young emperor's ambition. To gain the command of seas is a necessity for the one that can only do things on a large scale.England has the world's most important, experienced and technological fleet.
With a hero at the head : the Admiral Nelson. Napoleon has only one intention : he wants to invade England. In order to do so, he has already been developping for two years a fortified town on the French coast : it's the Boulogne Sur Mer harbor
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This is where the French army's divisions were meant to gather an dit can house a huge fleet : 150,000 men are now stationed and ready to board the island.
This new harbor is capable of keeping 3,000 ships. Napoleon intend to launch thousands of small ships loaded with men towards England, under the protection of Admiral de Villeneuve's powerful squadron.
But the Channel is protected, a complex plan is hatched in order to send England's squadron away and allow Villeneuve to come back in time to fulfill his mission.
He won't be able to do so. His voyage will end in the South of Spain and his encounter with the man who will ruin the Emperor's hopes of colonizing and win the world's last great battle of sailing ships.
This battle brought 60 ships, 35,000 sailors and over 5,000 cannons together.
On October, 21st, 1805, off the Cape of Trafalgar, the French fleet loses most of its ships while a grat sailor found his place in history : Admiral Nelson.
