
Plot
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
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Cast

Luigi Lo Cascio
Domenico Lopresti

Valerio Binasco
Angelo Cammarota

Francesca Inaudi
Cristina di Belgiojoso

Andrea Bosca
Angelo Cammarota (giovane)

Edoardo Natoli
Domenico Lopresti (giovane)

Luigi Pisani
Salvatore Tambasco

Guido Caprino
Felice Orsini

Renato Carpentieri
Carlo Poerio

Michele Riondino
Saverio Tambasco

Peppino Mazzotta
Don Carmine Lopresti

Franco Ravera
Antonio Gomez

Stefano Cassetti
Carlo Rudio

Andrea Renzi
Sigismondo di Castromediano

Ivan Franěk
Simon Bernard

Roberto De Francesco
Ludovico

Toni Servillo
Giuseppe Mazzini

Luca Barbareschi
Antonio Gallenga

Fiona Shaw
Emilie Ashurst

Luca Zingaretti
Francesco Crispi

Anna Bonaiuto
Cristina di Belgiojoso (anziana)

Alfonso Santagata
Saverio 'O' trappetaro' Tabasco

Fulvia Carotenuto
Domenico's mother

Pino Calabrese
Marshall Del Carretto

Beppe Rosso
Customs officer

Ivan Alovisio
Young Antonio Gallenga ('Procida')

Paolo Mazzarelli
Committee member

Roberto Accornero
Luigi Melegari

Emiliano Masala
Soldier

Bruno Cariello
Don Carlo

Renato Marotta
Arduino

Enzo Salomone
Marquis Pica

Edoardo Winspeare
Nicola Nisco

Antonio Pennarella
Prison warden

Giovanni Capalbo
Chief of guards

Francesco Di Leva
Prison guard

Carlo Guitto
Prison guard

Giovanni Ludeno
Gaetano Errichello

Antonello Cossia
Giovanni Caruso

Totò Onnis
Francesco Romano

Salvatore Cantalupo
Pasquale Vuoso

Luigi Biondi
Cesare Braico

Vito Facciolla
Zaccaria Gallo

Giancarlo Muselli
Luigi Sticco

Marco Mario De Notaris
Michele Pironti

Michelangelo Dalisi
Felice Barone

Claudio Spadaro
Bourbon agent

Nuccio Siano
Prisoner

Lola Peploe
Orsini's lover

Romuald Kłos
Stanisław Worcell

Vanessa Faye-Stanley
Rudio's wife

Beppe Chierici
Monsieur Hebert, a policeman

Francis Pardeilhan
Monsieur Delange, a judge

Claude Lebas
Priest in jail

Pierre Lucat
Reader of the verdict

Dante de Rose
Innkeeper

Giovanni Calcagno
Actor from the Vicaria

Vincenzo Pirrotta
Actor from the Vicaria

Salvatore Ragusa
Actor from the Vicaria

Gino De Luca
Garibaldino

Paolo Civati
Garibaldino

Rocco Capraro
Garibaldino

Massimo Zordan
Garibaldino

Filippo Plancher
Garibaldino officer

Jurij Ferrini
Piedmontese commander

Pietro Manigrasso
Prisoner (uncredited)

Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia
Aristocratico