Original Title: Tea with Mussolini
Year: 1999
Genre:
Drama, Comedy, War
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 6,9 (NEVAZUT)
Country: Italy, UK
Language:
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Writer: John Mortimer, Franco Zeffirelli
Composer: Stefano Arnaldi, Alessio Vlad
Producer: Marco Chimenz, Clive Parsons, Pippo Pisciotto, Riccardo Tozzi, Giovannella Zannoni, Frederick Muller
Actors: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Charlie Lucas, Massimo Ghini, Paolo Seganti, Claudio Spadaro, Mino Bellei, Paul Chequer, Tessa Pritchard, Michael Williams, Paula Jacobs, Bettine Milne, Hazel Parsons, Helen Stirling, Kathleen Doyle, Gisella Mathews, Gianna Giachetti, Chris Larkin, Giovanni Nannini, Pino Colizzi, Jackie Basehart, Giacomo Gonnella, Clemente Abete, Roberto Farnesi, Chris Tattanelli, Claudia Piccoli, Allan Caister Pearce, Hermann Weiskopf, Benedetta Magini, Beppe Landini, Giuseppe Rossi Borghesano, Marcellina Ruocco, Ferdinando Ferrini, Massimo Salvianti, David Agranov, Steven Blake, Gavino Bondioli, Fabio Fulco, Rizia Ortolani, Luca Padrini, Maria Weiss
Description: 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, works as the English secretary for Paolo Innocente, who, in part because of his own wife's adamant refusal, largely neglects his illegitimate adolescent son, Luca, 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, who, because...
Comments: Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Luca (played by Charlie Lucas) is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has died and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary (Joan Plowright), a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends—high-toned Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), pretentious Arabella (Judi Dench), American art collector Elsa (Cher) and cheerful lesbian Georgie (Lily Tomlin)—enjoy the cultured, creative atmosphere of life in Italy, and their initial response to the rise of fascism is to arrange a polite meeting with Mussolini to make sure he and his soldiers mean well. After some time, Luca's father becomes concerned that the boy is soaking up too much British influence and enrolls him in a boarding school in Austria; by the time 1940 rolls around, situations have changed radically for everyone. — Mark Deming
Duration: 117 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: Z:\02602 - Tea With Mussolini (1999) [DVDRip]\Tea With Mussolini.avi
Filesize: 699 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 544x304
Audio:
Subtitles: English, Serbian