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Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
“A story of civilized disobedience”
Comedy, Drama, War · 1h 57m
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.
Cast
Maggie Smith
Lady Hester Random
Judi Dench
Arabella
Joan Plowright
Mary Wallace
Cher
Elsa Strauss-Almerson
Lily Tomlin
Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell
B
Baird Wallace
Luca
C
Charlie Lucas
Luca (Child)
Michael Williams
British Consul
Paul Chequer
Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy
Massimo Ghini
Paolo
P
Paolo Seganti
Vittorio Fanfanni
T
Tessa Pritchard
Connie Raynor
Crew
- Director
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Screenplay
- John Mortimer
- Novel
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Director of Photography
- David Watkin
- Editor
- Tariq Anwar
- Producer
- Marco Chimenz, Clive Parsons, Frederick Muller, Giovannella Zannoni, Riccardo Tozzi
Details
- Release date
- 1999-03-25
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian, Russian
- Countries
- United Kingdom, Italy
- Production
- Cattleya, Cineritmo, Film and General Productions, Medusa Produzione
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Box office
- $21,001,563