Villafranca is a 1934 Italian historical drama film directed by Giovacchino Forzano and starring Corrado Racca, Annibale Betrone and Enzo Biliotti. It was based on a play by Benito Mussolini, then Italian dictator, about the 1859 agreement between Napoleon III and Count Cavour which led to the Second Italian War of Independence.
The film was made at the Fert Studios in Turin and on location in the city, which had been the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia at the time of the film's events.
Cast
Corrado Racca as Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
Annibale Betrone as Vittorio Emanuele II
Enzo Biliotti as Napoleone III
Pina Cei as principessa Clotilde di Savoia
Giulio Donadio as Castelli
Alberto Collo as Il canonico Gazzelli - confessore di casa Savoia
Giulio Oppi as il marchese Virago di Vische
Ernesto Marini as Margotti
Gustavo Conforti
Vasco Brambilla
Felice Minotti
Nino Bellini
Edoardo Biraghi
Cellio Bucchi
Valentino Bruchi
Isora Cardinali
Guido De Monticelli
María Denis
Luigi Erminio D'Olivo
Carlo Duse
Oreste Fares
Mario Ferrari
Luigi Lampugnani
Giulio Paoli
Guido Petri
Renato Tofone
Edoardo Toniolo
Egle Arista
Angelo Bassanelli
Roberto Pasetti