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.| Status: | Released (1999-03-25) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 BAFTA Award5 wins & 3 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $14,401,563 |
| Screen: | John Mortimer, Franco Zeffirelli |
| Productions: | Cattleya, Cineritmo, Film and General Productions, Medusa Produzione |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Italiano, Pусский |
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- 10978: Maggie Smith - Lady Hester Random
- 5309: Judi Dench - Arabella
- 23709: Joan Plowright - Mary Wallace
- 38225: Cher - Elsa Strauss-Almerson
- 10437: Lily Tomlin - Georgina "Georgie" Rockwell
- 1232520: Baird Wallace - Luca
- 192953: Charlie Lucas - Luca (Child)
Crews
- 24657: Franco Zeffirelli - Director - Directing
- 63960: Clive Parsons - Producer - Production
- 65248: Marco Chimenz - Producer - Production
- 65249: Stefano Arnaldi - Music - Sound
- 65250: Alessio Vlad - Music - Sound
- 8219: Tariq Anwar - Editor - Editing
- 10639: David Watkin - Director of Photography - Camera
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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”. Occas ....
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