Tea with Mussolini ( Un tè con Mussolini )

Tea with Mussolini (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Un tè con Mussolini
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby TrueHD )
English ( DTS 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby TrueHD )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
118 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Franco Zeffirelli

Written By:
John Mortimer
Franco Zeffirelli

Actors:
Cher ..... Elsa
Judi Dench ..... Arabella
Joan Plowright ..... Mary
Maggie Smith ..... Lady Hester
Lily Tomlin ..... Georgie
Baird Wallace ..... Luca
Charlie Lucas ..... Luca (child)
Massimo Ghini ..... Paolo
Paolo Seganti ..... Vittorio
Claudio Spadaro ..... Mussolini
Mino Bellei ..... Cesare
Paul Chequer ..... Wilfred
Tessa Pritchard ..... Connie
Michael Williams ..... British Consul
Paula Jacobs ..... Molly
Bettine Milne ..... Edith
Hazel Parsons ..... Hazel
Helen Stirling ..... Ursula
Kathleen Doyle ..... Norma
Gisella Mathews ..... Elderly Lady
Gianna Giachetti ..... Signora Badaloni
Chris Larkin ..... Major Gibson
Giovanni Nannini ..... Sacristan
Pino Colizzi ..... Dino Grandi
Jackie Basehart ..... Count Bernardini
Giacomo Gonnella ..... First Carabiniere
Clemente Abete ..... Second Carabiniere
Roberto Farnesi ..... Maurizio
Chris Tattanelli ..... Carmelo
Claudia Piccoli ..... Anna, Lady Hester's Maid
Allan Caister Pearce ..... American Dealer
Hermann Weiskopf ..... German Officer
Benedetta Magini ..... Giulia Meyer
Beppe Landini ..... Menotti, Hotel Manager
Giuseppe Rossi Borghesano ..... Butler
Marcellina Ruocco ..... Adriana
Ferdinando Ferrini ..... Professor Cassuto
Massimo Salvianti ..... Leading Fascist
David Agranov ..... SS Sergeant Gunther
Steven Blake ..... Simon
Gavino Bondioli ..... American
Fabio Fulco ..... Undetermined Role
Rizia Ortolani ..... Lady in the Coach
Luca Padrini ..... Young Student
Maria Weiss ..... Young Student

Synopsis:

In 1935 a group of elderly British women, whom the Italians have named the Scorpioni, have chosen Italy, specifically Florence, as a place to live to blend their proper British sensibilities with their love of Italian art and culture. One of those Scorpioni, Mary Walsh (Dame Joan Plowright), works as the English secretary for Paolo Innocente (Massimo Ghini), who, in part because of his own wife's adamant refusal, largely neglects his illegitimate adolescent son, Luca (Baird Wallace), despite Paolo's want for Luca to grow up to be a proper young man, much like the English. Luca has lived in an orphanage since his dressmaker mother's death, death a concept that Luca does not yet understand. As such, he often runs away looking for his mother. On a mutual agreement between Paolo and Mary, Mary becomes Luca's guardian, she who will receive help in raising Luca by her fellow Scorpioni and financial help from Paolo as needed. Associated with the Scorpioni is a brash younger nouveau riche Jewish-American woman named Elsa Morgenthal (Cher), who, because of her affection for Luca's mother to whom she owed money, sets up a trust for Luca's future. Amongst the Scorpioni, Lady Hester Random (Dame Maggie Smith), the widow of the former ambassador to Italy, in particular and Elsa do not get along because of their fundamental outward differences. The life for the Scorpioni changes with the on-set of World War II, more specifically when Italy declares war on Britain and France. Despite all of the Scorpioni taken into custody of sorts by the Italians, they are eventually housed in the comforts of a hotel. Lady Hester wrongly believes it is her association with Mussolini (Claudio Spadaro) that has gotten them into their comfortable surroundings, but which in reality was arranged and paid for by Elsa. Luca, who has just returned to Italy after attending school in Austria, helps Elsa with her efforts to assist those persecuted in Italy. Luca, now a teenager, has fallen in love with Elsa. As such, Luca is jealous of Elsa's professional and personal relationship with Italian lawyer Vittorio Fanfanni (Paolo Seganti). Elsa's own situation becomes more precarious with the United States' entrance into the war, the Nazis' increasing persecution of Jews, and Luca discovering that Fanfanni has ulterior motives in his relationship with Elsa. Through it all, Mary still tries to be the voice of what is right to Luca, who may be tainted by his own immature teenaged thoughts during these difficult times.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 08 December, 2020.

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