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'o Re (1989)

'o Re (1989)

Drama Comedy History
Release Date: 1989, January 27
Directors: Luigi Magni
Countries: Italy
Production: Clemi Cinematografica, Clemi Cinematografica, Titanus, Titanus
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Erminio Bianchi Fasani, Luc Merenda, Ornella Muti, Franco Pistoni, Sergio Solli, Iaia Forte, Gianni Franco, Egidio Termine, Vanni Fois, Marco Di Stefano, Guido Quintozzi

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.