Tea with Mussolini

(1999)

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| Film | Italy | Colour | Comedy, Drama, War |
| Stars: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright | Director: Franco Zeffirelli

An illegitimate Italian boy is looked after by a group of elderly English expatriates living in Florence; when they are interned during the Second World War, he helps them survive with the aid of a wealthy American

Cast

(28)
Cher
Elsa
Judi Dench
Arabella
Photograph of English actress, Joan Plowright (1)
Mary
The VIPs (1963) opening credits (8)
Maggie Smith
Lady Hester
Lily Tomlin
Georgie
Baird Wallace
Luca
Charlie Lucas
Luca
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
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Reviews

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A blandly old-fashioned, nostalgic wallow, in which its gaggle of actresses tame fascists with a withering glance, and are upstaged by the buildings and the Tuscan scenery. (Halliwell’s)

Production

(6)
Franco Zeffirelli
Director / Writer / Writer (autobiography)
Frederick Muller
Producer
Clive Parsons
Producer
Riccardo Tozzi
Producer
Giovannella Zannoni
Producer
John Mortimer
Writer (screenplay)