The Horseman on the Roof

In 19th-century France, amidst a cholera epidemic and war, young Italian nobleman Angelo Pardi (Olivier Martinez) gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband. Based on the 1951 French novel Le hussard sur le toit by Jean Giono, the film follows Angelo's adventures as he searches for his compatriot and childhood friend Maggionari, who betrays him, and later falls victim to cholera. Along the way, he meets a young woman, Countess Pauline de Théus (Juliette Binoche), a tutor and lover of books, who becomes entangled in his quest and eventually joins him on a daring river escape.