Tea with Mussolini

Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.

Maggie Smith

Lady Hester Random

Judi Dench

Arabella

Cher

Elsa Strauss-Almerson

Joan Plowright

Mary Wallace

Baird Wallace

Luca

Lily Tomlin

Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell

Charlie Lucas

Luca (Child)

Paul Chequer

Wilfred Random, aka Miss Lucy

Massimo Ghini

Paolo

Paolo Seganti

Vittorio Fanfanni

Claudio Spadaro

Benito Mussolini

Tessa Pritchard

Connie Raynor

Michael Williams

British Consul

Giacomo Gonnella

First Carabiniere

Allan Caister Pearce

American Dealer

Hermann Weiskopf

German Officer

Roberto Farnesi

Maurizio

Chris Larkin

Major Gibson