Un Te con Mussolini
Paese d'origine: Italy UK
Location del set: Florence, Tuscany, Italy Rome, Lazio, Italy San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy
Genere: Comedy Drama War
Lingue: English Italian
Plot: Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Ziffirelli. A bastard son (Charlie Lucas as a child, Baird Wallace as the teen) is raised by an Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) in pre-WWII Mussolini Italy, who is part of an English community in Florence presided over by a diplomat's widow Maggie Smith). Mixed into this English colony is an outrageous American art collector (Cher). Pseudo auto-biographical tale from the early life of director Franco Ziffirelli looks at the life of a bastard son (Charlie Lucas as a child, Baird Wallace as the teen) of an Italian businessman, whose mother has died and is raised by an Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) in pre-WWII Mussolini Italy. Living in an English community in Florence presided over by an ex-diplomat's wife (Maggie Smith), he and the other Englishwomen live a sheltered existence that they believe is guaranteed protection by Mussolini himself in a tea reception that Smith holds with Il Duce. However, as war breaks out, the women are shuttled away to a camp and then to a guarded hotel. Mixed into this English colony is an outrageous American (Cher), who makes recurrent village appearances in her travels and marriages to wealthy older men. The American has respect for the older women and unbeknownst to them, arranges their transfer and pays their hotel expenses after their capture. The Englishwomen for the most part find her vulgar and try to ignore her. But when America is drawn into the war, she too is placed under protective custody with the Englishwomen. Only then does she discover that her current Italian husband (Paolo Seganti) is really Italian Gestapo who has tricked her into signing over all of her money and art collection to him and is now arranging her death. This forces all to finally work together. Lily Tomlin also makes an appearance as an American lesbian historian doing archaelogical digs and historical studies in the city.
Visti censura internazionale: USA:PG Switzerland:12 Singapore:PG New Zealand:M Sweden:7 France:U Switzerland:12 Germany:6 Finland:K-8
Date di uscita internazionali:
| Argentina:8 June 2000 |
| Australia:29 July 1999 |
| Belgium:10 November 1999 |
| Brazil:14 April 2000 |
| Canada:14 May 1999 |
| Denmark:19 November 1999 |
| France:5 January 2000 |
| Germany:6 January 2000 |
| Hungary:16 September 1999 |
| Iceland:4 June 1999 |
| Israel:2 March 2000 |
| Italy:26 March 1999 |
| Japan:27 May 2000 |
| Kuwait:16 February 2000 |
| Malaysia:16 March 2000 |
| Netherlands:7 October 1999 |
| New Zealand:18 November 1999 |
| Norway:27 August 1999 |
| Singapore:7 October 1999 |
| Sweden:15 October 1999 |
| UK:2 April 1999 |
| USA:14 May 1999 |
| Switzerland:2 July 1999 | (German speaking region) |
| Czech Republic:July 1999 | (Karlovy Vary Film Festival) |
| Iceland:27 August 1999 | (Reykjavik Film Festival) |
| Japan:116 |
| New Zealand:116 |
| USA:116 |
Cast & Credits
da classificare:
tallone flavio
assistente costumista: ferrario ludovica
distribuzione cinematografica nazionale: mgm (metro-goldwyn-mayer) (aka mgm-ua) united international pictures (uip)
produzione cinematografica: cineritmo film & general productions medusa produzione
produttore cinematografico: tozzi riccardo chimenz marco parsons clive zannoni giovannella pisciotto giuseppe muller frederick
attore: cher dench judi plowright joan smith maggie tomlin lily wallace baird lucas charlie (ii) ghini massimo seganti paolo spadaro claudio bellei mino chequer paul pritchard tessa williams michael (i) jacobs paula milne bettina parsons hazel stirling helen doyle kathleen mathews gisella giachetti gianna larkin chris nannini giovanni colizzi pino basehart jackie gonnella giacomo abete clemente farnesi roberto tattanelli chris piccoli claudia pearce allan caister weisskopf hermann magini benedetta landini beppe borghesano giuseppe rossi ruocco marcellina ferrini ferdinando salvianti massimo ortolani rizia
direttore di produzione: loy alessandro
direttore della fotografia: watkin david
montaggio: anwar tariq
compositori: arnaldi stefano
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: zeffirelli franco mortimer john (i)
costumi: anni anna daelli ermanno beavan jenny spiazzi alberto
effetti speciali ottici: the film factory at vtr
troupe varia: lai alessandro sticchi massimiliano zocchi liberata moriarty mark sargent john allen angela tartaglia luciano terlizzi nicola antonello philippe ortolani rizia priori stefano rizzo eugene bosi elio d'offizi daniele fabrizi giuseppe massaccesi mario micheli franco olivieri marco vlad alessio harris mark (iv) prior clive rossi sara ruiz jennifer smith lucy (i) sunderland val booth robert (iii) brioni francesco cafolla fabio canaro roberto gaughan dominic gherardi deborah gherardi gina giovannini stefano grace sally (ii) hopkins alistair leone roberto lilly claudette martino pasquale (ii) menarini maria mordue janice
assistente costumista: ferrario ludovica
distribuzione cinematografica nazionale: mgm (metro-goldwyn-mayer) (aka mgm-ua) united international pictures (uip)
produzione cinematografica: cineritmo film & general productions medusa produzione
produttore cinematografico: tozzi riccardo chimenz marco parsons clive zannoni giovannella pisciotto giuseppe muller frederick
attore: cher dench judi plowright joan smith maggie tomlin lily wallace baird lucas charlie (ii) ghini massimo seganti paolo spadaro claudio bellei mino chequer paul pritchard tessa williams michael (i) jacobs paula milne bettina parsons hazel stirling helen doyle kathleen mathews gisella giachetti gianna larkin chris nannini giovanni colizzi pino basehart jackie gonnella giacomo abete clemente farnesi roberto tattanelli chris piccoli claudia pearce allan caister weisskopf hermann magini benedetta landini beppe borghesano giuseppe rossi ruocco marcellina ferrini ferdinando salvianti massimo ortolani rizia
direttore di produzione: loy alessandro
direttore della fotografia: watkin david
montaggio: anwar tariq
compositori: arnaldi stefano
sceneggiatori e soggettisti: zeffirelli franco mortimer john (i)
costumi: anni anna daelli ermanno beavan jenny spiazzi alberto
effetti speciali ottici: the film factory at vtr
troupe varia: lai alessandro sticchi massimiliano zocchi liberata moriarty mark sargent john allen angela tartaglia luciano terlizzi nicola antonello philippe ortolani rizia priori stefano rizzo eugene bosi elio d'offizi daniele fabrizi giuseppe massaccesi mario micheli franco olivieri marco vlad alessio harris mark (iv) prior clive rossi sara ruiz jennifer smith lucy (i) sunderland val booth robert (iii) brioni francesco cafolla fabio canaro roberto gaughan dominic gherardi deborah gherardi gina giovannini stefano grace sally (ii) hopkins alistair leone roberto lilly claudette martino pasquale (ii) menarini maria mordue janice