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Tea with Mussolini

A story of civilized disobedience

1999 · PG · 1h 57m

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli

6.4

TMDB audience score
162 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

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Cast

  • Maggie Smith
    Lady Hester Random

  • Judi Dench
    Arabella

  • Joan Plowright
    Mary Wallace

  • Cher
    Elsa Strauss-Almerson

  • Lily Tomlin
    Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell

  • Baird Wallace
    Luca

  • Charlie Lucas
    Luca (Child)

  • Michael Williams
    British Consul

  • Paul Chequer
    Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy

  • Massimo Ghini
    Paolo

  • Paolo Seganti
    Vittorio Fanfanni

  • Tessa Pritchard
    Connie Raynor

  • Claudio Spadaro
    Benito Mussolini

  • Roberto Farnesi
    Maurizio

  • Chris Larkin
    Major Gibson

  • Giacomo Gonnella
    First Carabiniere

  • Allan Caister Pearce
    American Dealer

  • Hermann Weiskopf
    German Officer