
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

Franco Tavassi as Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta

Sergio Solli as Pulcinella

Vincenzo Aronica as Comedian with Violin

Giovanni Balzaretti as Harlequin Comedian

Tina Bonavita as Comedian with Flower

Donato Citarella as Comedian with Guitar

Franco Concilio as Comedian

Carlo Conversi as Neapolitan Band Leader

Giuseppe D'Aloja as Brigand

Marco Di Stefano as Borbonic Officer

Paolo Falace as Luigi 'Chiavone' Alonso

Benedetto Fanna as Comedian

Carla Fioravanti as Comedian in Red

Vanni Fois as Borges' Traitor

Iaia Forte as Comedian with Tambourine

Gianni Franco as Italian General

Luigi Maria Gallo as

Bayer Gudrun as Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Mari Hubert as African Comedian

Alberto Incrocci as Zouaves Officer

Marco Massimiani as Italian Officer

Eleonora Parlante as Comedian with Hat

Isabella Perricone as Sicilian Comedian

Paolo Proietti as Comedian with Stilts

Luigi Rossi as

Gino Serra as

Gianfranco Stoppani as Medic

Egidio Termine as Garibaldino

Alfredo Vasco as Carmine Crocco

Guido Quintozzi as Shepherd (uncredited)

Sergio Silveri as Brigand (uncredited)

Marcello Magnelli as Brigand (uncredited)

Erminio Bianchi Fasani as Brigand (uncredited)
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