Desc: Vanina Vanini: Directed by Helmut Schiemann. With Annekathrin Bürger, Reimar J. Baur, Erika Pelikowsky, Peter Sturm. Set in 1820s during the early Risorgimento, when Italy was under Austrian control, it concerns the love affair of a young Roman princess and a revolutionary carbonaro. Vanina Vanini, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Roman aristocrat is sought after by all the young princes of Rome, but refuses them all.