We Believed

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.

History Drama Adventure

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

Michele Riondino

(Saverio Tambasco)

Peppino Mazzotta

(Don Carmine Lopresti)

Franco Ravera

(Antonio Gomez)

Stefano Cassetti

Andrea Renzi

(Sigismondo di Castromediano)

Ivan Franěk

(Simon Bernard)

Roberto De Francesco

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

Bruno Cariello

Renato Marotta

Enzo Salomone

Edoardo Winspeare

Antonio Pennarella

(Prison warden)

Giovanni Capalbo

(Chief of guards)

Francesco Di Leva

Carlo Guitto

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

Marco Mario De Notaris

(Michele Pironti)

Michelangelo Dalisi

(Felice Barone)

Claudio Spadaro

(Bourbon agent)

Nuccio Siano

Lola Peploe

(Orsini's lover)

Romuald Kłos

(Stanisław Worcell)

Vanessa Faye-Stanley

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

Giovanni Calcagno

(Actor from the Vicaria)

Vincenzo Pirrotta

(Actor from the Vicaria)

Salvatore Ragusa

(Actor from the Vicaria)

Gino De Luca

Paolo Civati

Rocco Capraro

Massimo Zordan

Filippo Plancher

(Garibaldino officer)

Jurij Ferrini

(Piedmontese commander)

Pietro Manigrasso

(Prisoner (uncredited))

Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia

(Aristocratico)