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One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
Casts

Giancarlo Giannini
re Francesco II di Borbone

Ornella Muti
regina Maria Sofia

Carlo Croccolo
Rafele

Luc Merenda
Don Josè Borjes

Cristina Marsillach
Luciana

Corrado Pani
generale Coviello

Anna Maria Ackermann
Regina Vedova

Sergio Solli
Pulcinella

Iaia Forte
la Ferrarese

Alfredo Vasco
Carmine Crocco

Anna Kanakis
brigantessa

Franco Pistoni
Vincenzo Aronica

Gianni Franco
Ufficiale Italiano
Alberto Incrocci

Eleonora Parlante
Massimo Abbate
Crews

Luigi Magni
Director
Giovanni Di Clemente
Producer

Ruggero Mastroianni
Editor

Luigi Magni
Screenplay

Franco Di Giacomo
Director of Photography

Lucia Mirisola
Production Design

Lucia Mirisola
Costume Design
Vittoria Vigorelli
Script Supervisor
Stefano Coletta
Camera Operator
Paolo Franceschi
Hairstylist
Rita Polidori
Assistant Editor
Paolo Venditti
Unit Manager
Alessandro Ghiara
Assistant Camera
Alberto Blasi
Makeup Artist
Enzo Lucarini
Administration
Raoul Settimelli
Assistant Costume Designer
Roberto Pariante
First Assistant Director
Vincenzo Falsaperla
Still Photographer
Giampiero Grassi
Seamstress
Paolo Mattioli
Production Secretary
Maria Castrignano
Seamstress
Mauro Anzelotti
Key Grip
Adriano Torbidone
Sound Mixer

Luigi Magni
Story
Domenico Lo Zito
Production Manager
Roberto Penna
Administration
Giulio Pietromarchi
Assistant Camera
Gianni Sardo
Sound
Edoardo Di Iorio
Assistant Production Design
Daniele Bellucci
Production Secretary
Luigi Rocchetti
Makeup Department Head

Nicola Piovani
Original Music Composer

Gaia D'Onofrio
Script Supervisor
Gasperina Marani
Assistant Editor
Paolo Ricci
Special Effects
Franco Fenu
Production Secretary
Valerio Garzia
Gaffer
Franco Borni
Sound
Alfredo Petti
Boom Operator
Bruno Ridolfi
Line Producer
Alessandro Alberti
Assistant Production Design
Byron Pierotti
Production Secretary
Mario Di Salvio
Makeup Artist
Jole Cecchini
Hairstylist
Luca Mancini
Production Secretary
Alessandro Incrocci
Second Assistant Director
Renato Marinelli
Foley Artist
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