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Tea with Mussolini

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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1 hour, 50 minutes

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Thu 14 May 202622:55
BBC Four

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MaryJoan Plowright
Lady HesterMaggie Smith
ElsaCher
ArabellaJudi Dench
GeorgieLily Tomlin
ConnieTessa Pritchard
LucaBaird Wallace
Luca (child)Charlie Lucas
DirectorFranco Zeffirelli
WriterFranco Zeffirelli
WriterJohn Mortimer

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