The Countess of Castiglione - Season 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.
Year: 2006
Genre: Drama, War & Politics
Studio: Rai 1
Director: Josée Dayan
Cast: Marco Messeri, Jeanne Moreau, Sergio Rubini, Frédéric van den Driessche, Francesca Dellera, Christopher Thompson
Crew: Josée Dayan (Director), Josée Dayan (Writer), Giovanni Bertolucci (Executive Producer), Elide Melli (Producer), Maria Teresa Bono (Producer), Francesco Sartori (Music)
First Air Date: Dec 03, 2006
Last Air date: Dec 04, 2006
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 2 Episode
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 9.479
Language: Italian
Keyword : birth of a nation, 19th century
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