Movielogr
'o Re (1989)
Directed by Luigi Magni
Overview
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.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Giancarlo Giannini | Ornella Muti | Carlo Croccolo | Luc Merenda | Cristina Marsillach | Anna Maria Ackermann | Corrado Pani | Massimo Abbate | Anna Kanakis | Franco Pistoni | Franco Tavassi | Sergio Solli | Vincenzo Aronica | Giovanni Balzaretti | Tina Bonavita | Donato Citarella | Franco Concilio | Carlo Conversi | Giuseppe D'Aloja | Marco Di Stefano | Paolo Falace | Benedetto Fanna | Carla Fioravanti | Vanni Fois | Iaia Forte | Gianni Franco | Luigi Maria Gallo | Bayer Gudrun | Mari Hubert | Alberto Incrocci | Marco Massimiani | Eleonora Parlante | Isabella Perricone | Paolo Proietti | Luigi Rossi | Gino Serra | Gianfranco Stoppani | Egidio Termine | Alfredo Vasco | Guido Quintozzi | Sergio Silveri | Marcello Magnelli | Erminio Bianchi