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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.

Cast

Giancarlo Giannini

Francis II of the Two Sicilies

Ornella Muti

Maria Sophie of Bavaria

Carlo Croccolo

Rafele

Luc Merenda

Don Josè Borges

Cristina Marsillach

Luciana

Anna Maria Ackermann

Maria Theresa of Austria

Corrado Pani

General Coviello

Massimo Abbate

Prince Louis, Count of Trani

Anna Kanakis

Brigand Woman

Franco Pistoni

Police Commissioner Macchi