page_title: Fantaghirò series
section_title: Romualdo
hierarchical_section_title: Fantaghirò series / Main characters / Romualdo
caption_attribution_description: English: THE COVERED BRIDGE CONNECTS TWO PORTIONS OF THE CASTLE AND IS OFFICIALY LISTED IN THE WORLD GUIDE OF COVERED BRIDGES WITH NUMBER CZ-01-02-07-08
context_page_description: Fantaghirò, alternately titled The Cave of the Golden Rose, is an Italian fantasy series consisting of five television films directed by Lamberto Bava and released between 1991 and 1996. The first film was originally based on Italo Calvino's Fanta-Ghiro the Beautiful, before splitting in its own direction in the sequels, and takes place in a fairy tale setting, featuring princesses, princes, witches, wizards and talking animals. Highly popular in Italy during the 1990s, it was loosely adapted into a cartoon series of the same title and there also have been abortive plans for further film entries.
context_section_description: Romualdo, portrayed by Kim Rossi Stuart, is Fantaghirò's beloved and later husband. After the death of his father, Romualdo seeks to end the centuries-long war his ancestors have waged against Fantaghirò's people by challenging Fantaghirò's father to single combat. He falls in love with her in the first film and becomes obsessed with finding her. He is shocked when he meets her properly for the first time, as she has chosen to replace her father as Romualdo's opponent, and is disguised as a man. Eventually he learns that she is a princess and the two are bethrothed. They are due to be married early in the second film, but the ceremony is postponed when the Black Witch kidnaps Fantaghirò's father. Romualdo becomes the Black Witch's target, and she bewitches him to make him her lover. Romualdo eventually regains his memories thanks to Fantaghirò and the White Witch.
  In the third film, Romualdo turns into a statue whilst fighting Tarabas' men, and is only revived near the end of the movie, when the pair are finally married. In the fourth film, Stuart did not want to return again for the role, so Romualdo was transformed into the hideously ugly Fiodor, portrayed by Riccardo Serventi Longhi. At the end of the film, Fiodor is transformed back to Romualdo. Romualdo does not appear at all in the fifth film, except in flashback.
caption: "Romualdo's castle" in 2009
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