Napoleon and Me
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.
Paolo Virzì
Casts & Crew
Daniel Auteuil
Monica Bellucci
Elio Germano
Sabrina Impacciatore
Valerio Mastandrea
Francesca Inaudi
Massimo Ceccherini
Omero Antonutti
Margarita Lozano
José Ángel Egido
Achille Brugnini
Vincent Lo Monaco
Vittorio Amandola
Emanuele Barresi
Carlo Monni
Fausto Caroli
Andrea Cambi
Gianluca Iume
Raffaella Lebboroni
Giorgio Algranti
Carlo Neri
Sandro Radicia
Andrea Buscemi
Simone Caroti
Marco Conte
Giorgio Cortigiani
Fabio Vannozzi
Alberto Forti
Guido Genovesi
Pietro Fornaciari
Tommaso Forni
Gloria Bigongiali
Max Galligani
Simone Gallo
Francesco Gerardi
Roberto Marini
Sergio Pirilli
Giovanni Rindi
Luca Saglimbeni
Vincenza Scotto
Maria Grazia Taddei
Carlo Ipata
Giorgio Sasso
Massimo Paciarello
Matteo Scarpelli
Francesco Bruni
Matteo Creatini
Amedeo Delle Piane
Jacopo Galli
Silvia Lombardo
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