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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Daniel AuteuilNapoleone Bonaparte
Elio GermanoMartino Papucci
Monica BellucciBaronessa Emilia Speziali
Francesca InaudiMirella
Sabrina ImpacciatoreDiamantina Papucci
Valerio MastandreaFerrante Papucci
Massimo CeccheriniCosimo Bartolini
Omero AntonuttiMaestro Fontanelli
Margarita LozanoPascalina
José Ángel EgidoMarchand
Achille BrugniniColonnello CampbellExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Paolo Virzì
- Screenplay
- Furio Scarpelli
- Screenplay
- Giacomo Scarpelli
- Screenplay
- Francesco Bruni
- Director
- Paolo Virzì
- Original Music Composer
- Paolo Buonvino
- Producer
- Giovanni Stabilini
- Producer
- Marco Chimenz
- Director of Photography
- Alessandro Pesci
- Editor
- Cecilia Zanuso
- Original Music Composer
- Juan Bardem Aguado
- Producer
- Gianni Nunnari
- Producer
- Riccardo Tozzi