Milan, 1855. The beautiful Virginia, Countess of Castiglione, helps a young revolutionary painter, Andrea Pieri, to escape the Austrians. Passion breaks out between the two. Pieri portrays the woman in a sketch that arrives in the hands of Napoleon III, who instructs the diplomat Nigra, actually head of the secret services of Savoy, to track her down. He asked the woman to lend herself to a special patriotic mission: to support the efforts of the sĂ bauda diplomacy, seducing the Emperor of France and convincing him to put the question of Italian independence on the agenda of the Paris peace conference.
Marco Messeri
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
Jeanne Moreau
Principessa Sisi Altieri
Sergio Rubini
Costantino Nigra
Frédéric van den Driessche
Imperatore Napoleone III
Francesca Dellera
Virginia Oldoini Verasis, contessa di Castiglione
Christopher Thompson
Andrea Pieri
Andrea Tidona
Prefetto Donadieu
Goya Toledo
Imperatrice Eugenia
Toni Garrani
Rothschild
Sergio Assisi
Francesco Verasis, conte di Castiglione
Claire Nebout
Matilde Bonaparte