Overview

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.

Genres

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

Vittorio Amandola

Sindaco Egisto Lonzi Tognarini