Tea with Mussolini
A story of civilized disobedience
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Revenue
- $21,001,563
- Production
- Cattleya, Cineritmo, Film and General Productions, Medusa Produzione
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Cast
Maggie Smith
Lady Hester Random
Judi Dench
Arabella
Joan Plowright
Mary Wallace
Cher
Elsa Strauss-Almerson
Lily Tomlin
Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell
Michael Williams
British Consul
Massimo Ghini
Paolo
Paolo Seganti
Vittorio Fanfanni
Claudio Spadaro
Benito Mussolini
Roberto Farnesi
Maurizio
Chris Larkin
Major Gibson
Giacomo Gonnella
First Carabiniere
Hermann Weiskopf
German Officer
Pino Colizzi
Grandi
Crew
- Director
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Writers
- John Mortimer
- Cinematography
- David Watkin
- Composer
- Stefano Arnaldi,Alessio Vlad
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CinemaSerf
December 20, 2025
The “Scorpioni” are a bunch of entitled and privileged British women who live in Florence in the 1930s under the leadership of “Lady Hester” (Dame Maggie Smith). She is the widow of the former British Ambassador and is not entirely unsympathetic to the aspirations of “Il Duce”. Occasionally, they have to tolerate the interloping presence of the brash and wealthy American actress “Elsa” (Cher) but even with the aggressive rise of the fascists, that appears to be the only inconvenience in their ra…