The Countess of Castiglione (Italian: La contessa Castiglione) is a 1942 Italian historical film directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Doris Duranti, Andrea Checchi and Renato Cialente. The film portrays the life of the nineteenth-century Italian aristocrat Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, best known as the lover of Napoleon III of France.
Cast
Doris Duranti as Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
Andrea Checchi as Baldo Princivalli
Renato Cialente as Costantino Nigra
Enzo Biliotti as Napoleon III
Lamberto Picasso as marchese Oldoini
Clara Auteri Pepe as Martina
Annibale Betrone as L'urbanista barone Haussmann
Giacomo Moschini as Mocquart
Cesare Barbetti as Il piccolo Peruzzi
Marisa Dianora as Marianna
Claudio Ermelli as Il nobile sulla sedia a rotelle
Nino Marchesini as Connot
Alfredo Martinelli as Un amico degli Oldoini
Armando Migliari as Un amico degli Oldoini
Nico Pepe as Un amico degli Oldoini
Emilio Petacci as Un amico degli Oldoini
Vinicio Sofia as Un amico degli Oldoini
Maria Pia Spini as L'imperatrice Eugenia
Gabriele Ferzetti
Fulvio Ranieri
Ennio Sammartino
Ambretta Glori
Edoardo Grandi
Alda Lauri
Alessandra Adari
Luigi Allodoli
See also
The Contessa's Secret (1954)