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Napoleon and Me
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Napoleon and Me

2006-10-13 · 110 min · ★ 6.1

Comedy · History

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.

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Directors
Paolo Virzì
Production companies
Babe Films, Alquimia Cinema, Cattleya
Countries
France, Italy, Spain
Status
Released

Top Cast

Daniel AuteuilDaniel AuteuilNapoleone Bonaparte
Elio GermanoElio GermanoMartino Papucci
Monica BellucciMonica BellucciBaronessa Emilia Speziali
Francesca InaudiFrancesca InaudiMirella
Sabrina ImpacciatoreSabrina ImpacciatoreDiamantina Papucci
Valerio MastandreaValerio MastandreaFerrante Papucci
Massimo CeccheriniMassimo CeccheriniCosimo Bartolini
Omero AntonuttiOmero AntonuttiMaestro Fontanelli
Margarita LozanoMargarita LozanoPascalina
José Ángel EgidoJosé Ángel EgidoMarchand
Achille BrugniniAchille BrugniniColonnello Campbell
Vincent Lo MonacoGenerale Drouot
Vittorio AmandolaVittorio AmandolaSindaco Egisto Lonzi Tognarini
Emanuele BarresiEmanuele BarresiSegretario comunale
Carlo MonniCarlo MonniNotaio Bonci Bacelli
Fausto CaroliAli
Andrea CambiAndrea CambiOreste
Gianluca IumeBrogi
Raffaella LebboroniRaffaella LebboroniGovernante
Giorgio AlgrantiGiorgio AlgrantiInserviente #1

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