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Tea with Mussolini

6.4 117 mins Comedy   Drama   War   1999
Cattleya   Cineritmo   Film and General Productions   Medusa Produzione  
Director(s): Franco Zeffirelli

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.

Casts of Tea with Mussolini

Maggie Smith

as Lady Hester Random

Judi Dench

as Arabella

Joan Plowright

as Mary Wallace

Cher

as Elsa Strauss-Almerson

Lily Tomlin

as Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell

Baird Wallace

as Luca

Charlie Lucas

as Luca (Child)

Michael Williams

as British Consul

Paul Chequer

as Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy

Massimo Ghini

as Paolo

Paolo Seganti

as Vittorio Fanfanni

Tessa Pritchard

as Connie Raynor

Claudio Spadaro

as Benito Mussolini

Roberto Farnesi

as Maurizio

Chris Larkin

as Major Gibson

Giacomo Gonnella

as First Carabiniere

Allan Caister Pearce

as American Dealer

Hermann Weiskopf

as German Officer

Pino Colizzi

as Grandi

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