• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Romantic Drama, Melodrama
• Themes: Prostitutes, Crowned Heads
• Director: Axel Corti
• Main Cast: Timothy Dalton, Valeria Golino, Stéphane Freiss, Robin Renucci, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.
• Release Year: 1990
• Country: US/UK/IT/FR
• Run Time: 111 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Axel Corti directed this historical drama starring Timothy Dalton as King Vittorio Amadeo, a 17th-century Italian monarch who becomes obsessed with the wife of one of his courtiers (Valeria Golino). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Timothy Dalton - King Vittorio Amadeo
• Valeria Golino - Jeanne de Luynes
• Stéphane Freiss - Count di Verua
• Robin Renucci - Charles de Luynes
• Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. - Scaglia

Eleanor David - Queen; Margaret Tyzack - Dowager Countess; Paul Crauchet - Duke of Luynes; William Berger - Count Longhi; Anna Bonaiuto - Madame Longhi; Gigi Bonos - 2nd Priest; Charles Borromel - 1st Warden; Elizabeth Kaza - Madame Trevie; Marne Maitland - Count Trevie; Stefano Molinari - Steward; Lea Padovani - Madame Cumiana; Venantino Venantini - Luis de Arragon; Frederick von Thun - Karl Von Schwarzenberg; Amy Werba - Heloise; Russell Case - Officer; Ugo Fangareggi - Doctor; Federico Pacifici - 1st Courtier; Leonardo Ruta - Prince Vittorio; Robert Spafford - William of Nassau; Franco Valobra - Duke of Aosta; Dominique Marcas - Cook; Bettine Milne - Lady Servant; Paolo Paoloni - Longhi's Lackey; Rosa DiBrigida - Emilia

Credit

Luc Étienne - First Assistant Director; Michele Abbe-Vannier - Production Designer; Maurice Bernart - Producer; Rino Carboni - Makeup; Axel Corti - Director; Axel Corti - Screenwriter; Carlo Diappi - Costume Designer; Joëlle van Effenterre - Editor; Francesco Frigeri - Production Designer; Jacques Leguillon - Set Designer; Bryan Oates - Editor; Frederic Raphael - Screenwriter; Gernot Roll - Cinematographer; Wieland Schulz-Keil - Producer; Daniel Vigne - Screenwriter; Gabriel Yared - Composer (Music Score); Mauro Sacripanti - First Assistant Director; Tony Brandt - First Assistant Director; Alain Centonze - First Assistant Director; Michel Ferry - First Assistant Director; Lorenzo D'Ambrosio - Set Designer; Rudolf Wichmann - Co-producer; Jacques Tournier - Book Author