Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
| Writing | Francesco Bruni | Screenplay |
| Writing | Furio Scarpelli | Screenplay |
| Writing | Giacomo Scarpelli | Screenplay |
| Writing | Paolo Virzì | Screenplay |
| Directing | Paolo Virzì | Director |
| Writing | Giacomo Scarpelli | Story |
| Writing | Furio Scarpelli | Story |
| Writing | Francesco Bruni | Story |
| Writing | Paolo Virzì | Story |
| Writing | Ernesto Ferrero | Novel |
| Sound | Alessandra Perpignani | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Antonio Dominici | Assistant Editor |
| Directing | Henrique Laplaine | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Gianluca Greco | Second Unit Director |
| Production | Gianluca Greco | Extras Casting |
| Production | Barbara Giordani | Casting Director |
| Sound | Mario Iaquone | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alessandro Bertolazzi | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maria Teresa Corridoni | Key Hair Stylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maurizio Millenotti | Costume Design |
| Art | Francesco Frigeri | Production Design |
| Sound | Juan Bardem Aguado | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Paolo Buonvino | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Cecilia Zanuso | Editor |
| Camera | Alessandro Pesci | Director of Photography |
| Production | Roberto Alchimede | Production Manager |
| Production | Matteo De Laurentiis | Executive Producer |
| Production | Gianni Nunnari | Producer |
| Production | Fabio Conversi | Co-Producer |
| Production | Francisco Ramos | Co-Producer |
| Production | Riccardo Tozzi | Producer |
| Production | Marco Chimenz | Producer |
| Production | Giovanni Stabilini | Producer |
