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.
Daniel Auteuil
as Napoleone Bonaparte
Elio Germano
as Martino Papucci
Monica Bellucci
as Baronessa Emilia Speziali
Francesca Inaudi
as Mirella
Sabrina Impacciatore
as Diamantina Papucci
Valerio Mastandrea
as Ferrante Papucci
Massimo Ceccherini
as Cosimo Bartolini
Omero Antonutti
as Maestro Fontanelli
Margarita Lozano
as Pascalina
José Ángel Egido
as Marchand
Achille Brugnini
as Colonnello Campbell
Vincent Lo Monaco
as Generale Drouot
