- All-Star Cast: Starred Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron, Georges Marchal, Jean Marais, Vittorio De Sica, Jack Palance, Orson Welles, Michel Simon and Jean-Louis Trintignant, among others.
- Backed by the Pentagon: The film was mostly made in Yugoslavia, and the country's then-leader, Josip Broz Tito, loved cinema. He helped the production by lending it soldiers and cavalry from his own army as extras.
- California Doubling: The eponymous battle (which happened in Moravia, Habsburg Empire, nowadays' Czech Republic) was filmed near Zagreb, then-Yugoslavia (nowadays' Croatia).
- Creator-Driven Successor: This film was Gance's second foray into the Napoleonic era after the 1927 silent epic Napoléon.
- Fake Nationality:
- Italians Claudia Cardinale, Daniela Rocca, Anna Maria Ferrero and Rossano Brazzi as the French Pauline Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte and Lucien Bonaparte, respectively (although the Bonapartes were of Italian descent).
- The Italian Ettore Manni as the French Joachim Murat.
- The American (of Ukrainian descent) Jack Palance as the Austrian general Franz von Weyrother.
- Refitted for Sequel: Abel Gance reused many ideas he had in store for the unfinished silent film saga he started with 1927's Napoléon in this film.
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