Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
Directed by Paolo Virzì
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Cast
Daniel Auteuil
Napoleone Bonaparte
Elio Germano
Martino Papucci
Monica Bellucci
Baronessa Emilia Speziali
Francesca Inaudi
Mirella
Sabrina Impacciatore
Diamantina Papucci
Valerio Mastandrea
Ferrante Papucci
Massimo Ceccherini
Cosimo Bartolini
Omero Antonutti
Maestro Fontanelli
Margarita Lozano
Pascalina
José Ángel Egido
Marchand
Achille Brugnini
Colonnello Campbell
Vincent Lo Monaco
Generale Drouot
Vittorio Amandola
Sindaco Egisto Lonzi Tognarini
Emanuele Barresi
Segretario comunale
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