The Horseman on the Roof (1995) on Netflix

Plot summary

In July 1832, Italian patriots hiding in Aix are hunted by Austrian agents, and Angelo Pardi, a young nobleman and colonel in the Piedmont Hussars, flees into the Provençal countryside. He is in France to raise money for the revolution against Austria, though he has never seen battle and his mother bought his commission. The roads are closed by a cholera epidemic, and the villages he passes hold corpses abandoned to crows and pyres being burned. A country physician shows him how alcohol rubbed hard on the skin is used against the disease. In Manosque a mob accuses him of poisoning the town fountain; he fights his way out and escapes across the rooftops. Taking shelter in a house, he is found by Countess Pauline de Théus, who is looking for her husband.