Tea with Mussolini

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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  Franco Zeffirelli

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  Maggie Smith
  Lady Hester Random
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  Judi Dench
  Arabella
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  Joan Plowright
  Mary Wallace
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  Cher
  Elsa Strauss-Almerson
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  Lily Tomlin
  Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell
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  Baird Wallace
  Luca
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  Charlie Lucas
  Luca (Child)
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  Michael Williams
  British Consul
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  Paul Chequer
  Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy
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  Massimo Ghini
  Paolo
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  Paolo Seganti
  Vittorio Fanfanni
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  Tessa Pritchard
  Connie Raynor
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  Claudio Spadaro
  Benito Mussolini
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  Roberto Farnesi
  Maurizio
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  Chris Larkin
  Major Gibson
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  Giacomo Gonnella
  First Carabiniere
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  Allan Caister Pearce
  American Dealer
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  Hermann Weiskopf
  German Officer
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  Pino Colizzi
  Grandi