Movie: The Contessa's Secret
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La Castiglione - Virginia Oldoini
Lucio Falengo
L'empereur Napoléon III
Le comte de Cavour
L'impératrice
La princesse Mathilde Bonaparte
Mocquart
La princesse de Metternich
Pietri
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The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
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1954-09-26
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