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– Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the..
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
13 Oct 2006
Italian, French
Paolo Virzì
Francesco Bruni (screenplay), Ernesto Ferrero (novel), Furio Scarpelli (screenplay), Giacomo Scarpelli (screenplay), Paolo Virzì (screenplay)
Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Sabrina Impacciatore
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
7 wins & 13 nominations.
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