We Believed

We Believed

170 mins | Drama, Adventure, History | Nov. 12, 2010

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.

We Believed

170 mins | Drama, Adventure, History | Nov. 12, 2010

We Believed
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers ARTE France Cinéma, RAI, Palomar, Regione Puglia, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Les Films d'Ici, La Città di Torino, Apulia Film Commission, Regione Piemonte, Rai Cinema, Feltrinelli Real Cinema
Original title Noi Credevamo
Directors Valérie Tristan, Vincenzo Rosa, Fiorella Giovanelli, Raffaele Di Florio, David Maria Putorti, Sara Casani, Alice Filippi, Paola Rota, Mario Martone
Writers Anna Banti, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Mario Martone

Cast

Luigi Lo Cascio

as Domenico Lopresti

Valerio Binasco

as Angelo Cammarota

Francesca Inaudi

as Cristina di Belgiojoso

Andrea Bosca

as Young Angelo Cammarota

Edoardo Natoli

as Young Domenico Lopresti

Luigi Pisani

as Salvatore Tambasco

Guido Caprino

as Felice Orsini

Renato Carpentieri

as Carlo Poerio

Michele Riondino

as Saverio Tambasco

Peppino Mazzotta

as Don Carmine Lopresti

Franco Ravera

as Antonio Gomez

Stefano Cassetti

as Carlo Rudio

Andrea Renzi

as Sigismondo di Castromediano

Ivan Franěk

as Dr. Simon Bernard

Roberto De Francesco

as Ludovico

Toni Servillo

as Giuseppe Mazzini

Luca Barbareschi

as Antonio Gallenga

Fiona Shaw

as Emilie Ashurst

Luca Zingaretti

as Francesco Crispi

Anna Bonaiuto

as Older Cristina di Belgiojoso

Alfonso Santagata

as Saverio 'O' trappetaro' Tabasco

Fulvia Carotenuto

as Domenico's mother

Pino Calabrese

as Marshall Del Carretto

Beppe Rosso

as Customs officer

Ivan Alovisio

as Young Antonio Gallenga ('Procida')

Paolo Mazzarelli

as Committee member

Roberto Accornero

as Luigi Melegari

Emiliano Masala

as Soldier

Bruno Cariello

as Don Carlo

Renato Marotta

as Arduino

Enzo Salomone

as Marquis Pica

Edoardo Winspeare

as Nicola Nisco

Antonio Pennarella

as Prison warden

Giovanni Capalbo

as Chief of guards

Francesco Di Leva

as Prison guard

Carlo Guitto

as Prison guard

Giovanni Ludeno

as Gaetano Errichello

Antonello Cossia

as Giovanni Caruso

Totò Onnis

as Francesco Romano

Salvatore Cantalupo

as Pasquale Vuoso

Luigi Biondi

as Cesare Braico

Vito Facciolla

as Zaccaria Gallo

Giancarlo Muselli

as Luigi Sticco

Marco Mario De Notaris

as Michele Pironti

Michelangelo Dalisi

as Felice Barone

Claudio Spadaro

as Bourbon agent

Nuccio Siano

as Prisoner

Lola Peploe

as Orsini's lover

Romuald Klos

as Stanisław Worcell

Vanessa Faye-Stanley

as Rudio's wife

Beppe Chierici

as Monsieur Hebert, a policeman

Francis Michel Pardailhan

as Monsieur Delange, a judge

Claude Lebas

as Priest in jail

Pierre Lucat

as Reader of the verdict

Dante de Rose

as Innkeeper

Giovanni Calcagno

as Actor from the Vicaria

Vincenzo Pirrotta

as Actor from the Vicaria

Salvatore Ragusa

as Actor from the Vicaria

Gino De Luca

as Garibaldino

Paolo Civati

as Garibaldino

Rocco Capraro

as Garibaldino

Massimo Zordan

as Garibaldino

Filippo Plancher

as Garibaldino officer

Jurij Ferrini

as Piedmontese commander

Pietro Manigrasso

as Prisoner (uncredited)

Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia

as Aristocratico