Season 1 (2006)
Release date: 2006-12-03
Director: Josée Dayan
Writer: Josée Dayan
Episodes (2):
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1. Episode 1
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 sàbauda diplomacy, seducing the Emperor of France and convincing him to put the question of Italian independence on the agenda of the Paris peace conference.
Release date: 2006-12-03
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2. Episode 2
Virginia falls in love with Napoleon III. Empress Eugenia, who had hints of their love story, is shown a jealousy that could compromise her plans.
Release date: 2006-12-04
Cast
Francesca Dellera
as Virginia Oldoini Verasis / Contessa di Castiglione
Jeanne Moreau
as Principessa Sisi Altieri
Sergio Rubini
as Costantino Nigra
Christopher Thompson
as Andrea Pieri
Andrea Tidona
as Prefetto Donadieu
Frédéric van den Driessche
as Imperatore Napoleone III
Goya Toledo
as Imperatrice Eugenia
Marco Messeri
as Camillo Benso / Conte di Cavour
Toni Garrani
as Rothschild
Sergio Assisi
as Francesco Verasis / Conte di Castiglione
Claire Nebout
as Matilde Bonaparte
Crew - click here to expand
Nicoletta Ercole - Costume Design, Lily Pungitore - Decorator, Adriana Sabbatini - Casting, Josée Dayan - Writer, Andrea Crisanti - Art Designer, Elide Melli - Producer, Fred Béraud-Dufour - Editor, Giovanni Bertolucci - Executive Producer, Francesco Sartori - Music, Margherita Meddi - Wardrobe Coordinator, Luca Prati - Assistant Director, Giuseppe Muratori - Sound, Josée Dayan - Director, Maria Teresa Bono - Producer, Luca Grivet Brancot - Assistant Director, Laura Casalini - Decorator, Ennio Guarnieri - Director of Photography