'O re
Released: January 27, 1989Runtime: 95 minLanguage: IT
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.
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Giancarlo Giannini
as Francis II of the Two Sicilies
Ornella Muti
as Maria Sophie of Bavaria
Carlo Croccolo
as Rafele
Luc Merenda
as Don Josè Borges
Cristina Marsillach
as Luciana
Anna Maria Ackermann
as Maria Theresa of Austria
Corrado Pani
as General Coviello
Massimo Abbate
as Prince Louis, Count of Trani
Anna Kanakis
as Brigand Woman
Franco Pistoni
as Police Commissioner Macchi
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