Francesca Dellera
Virginia Oldoini Verasis / Contessa di Castiglione
TV SERIES
The Countess of Castiglione
DramaWar & Politics
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andrea Pieri, a patriot ready to do anything to free Italy from the foreign oppressor. Wounded during a chase, Pieri takes refuge in the castle of Virginia, which, with the approval of her husband, Count Francesco Verasis of Castiglione, takes care of him. Meanwhile, Nigra, in charge of the affairs of the Kingdom of Piedmont in Paris, discovers the relations of the countess with the subversives and sees in her the perfect tool to bring Napoleon closer to the Italian cause.
Top cast
Jeanne Moreau
Principessa Sisi Altieri
Sergio Rubini
Costantino Nigra
Christopher Thompson
Andrea Pieri
Andrea Tidona
Prefetto Donadieu
Frédéric van den Driessche
Imperatore Napoleone III
Goya Toledo
Imperatrice Eugenia
Marco Messeri
Camillo Benso / Conte di Cavour
Toni Garrani
Rothschild
Sergio Assisi
Francesco Verasis / Conte di Castiglione
Claire Nebout
Matilde Bonaparte
Creative team
Josée Dayan (Writer) • Josée Dayan (Director)
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Episodes
2 Episodes
011. 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.
022. 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.