Tea with Mussolini (1999)

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Written by John Mortimer, Franco Zeffirelli

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli

Running Time: 130 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1999

Rating: PG Certificate

Filmed in Colour

This movie looks at the life of an illegitimate son (Charlie Lucas/Baird Wallace) of an Italian businessman, whose mother has died and is raised by an Englishwoman, Mary (Joan Plowright) in pre-WWII Mussolini Italy.

Living in an English community in Florence presided over by an ex-diplomat's wife Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), he and the other Englishwomen live a sheltered existence that they believe is guaranteed protection by Mussolini himself in a tea reception that Smith holds.

Basically a tale of how a group of women living in the increasingly Fascist Florence of 1935 depend on each other to survive in this moving drama from director Franco Zeffirelli.

Cast

CherElsa Morganthal Strauss-Armistan
Image for Judi DenchJudi DenchArabella
Joan PlowrightMary Wallace
Image for Maggie SmithMaggie SmithLady Hester Random
Image for Lily TomlinLily TomlinGeorgie Rockwell
Baird WallaceLuca
Charlie LucasLuca as a child
Massimo GhiniPaolo
Paolo SegantiVittorio Fanfanni
Claudio SpadaroMussolini
Mino BelleiCesare
Paul ChequerWilfred Random/Miss Lucy
Tessa PritchardConnie Raynor
Michael WilliamsBritish Consul
Paula JacobsMolly

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