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.
Giancarlo Giannini
as re Francesco II di Borbone
Ornella Muti
as regina Maria Sofia
Carlo Croccolo
as Rafele
Luc Merenda
as Don Josè Borjes
Cristina Marsillach
as Luciana
Corrado Pani
as generale Coviello
Anna Maria Ackermann
as Regina Vedova
Sergio Solli
as Pulcinella
Iaia Forte
as la Ferrarese
Alfredo Vasco
as Carmine Crocco
Anna Kanakis
as brigantessa
Franco Pistoni
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