Tea with Mussolini

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Tea With Mussolini

Joan Plowright

Maggie Smith

Cher undefined

Judi Dench

Lily Tomlin

Tessa Pritchard

Baird Wallace

Charlie Lucas

Franco Zeffirelli

John Mortimer

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Drama: Classic & Period

BBC Two - Tea with Mussolini

Florence 1935. Luca, part-raised by English ladies in Florence, re-enters their lives.

Italian lad Luca, part-raised by English ladies living in Florence in 1935, re-enters their lives just as the encroaching war sees them forcibly relocated.

Florence 1935.  A circle of English ladies settled in the cultured city take an orphan boy, Luca, under their wing.  But even a propaganda encounter with Il Duce cannot protect them when war comes, and it falls to Luca and two brash American women they barely tolerate to ease their existence.

Semi-autobiographical drama from Franco Zeffirelli.

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