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1999 film by Franco Zeffirelli

Tea with Mussolini (Italian: Un tè con Mussolini) is a 1999 semi-autobiographical comedy-dramawar film directed by Franco Zeffirelli,^[2] scripted by John Mortimer, telling the story of a young Italian boy's upbringing by a circle of British and American women before and during the Second World War.^[2]

At the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, Tea with Mussolini won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Maggie Smith).

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The film also nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design but lost to Sleepy Hollow.

Plot

The film begins in 1935 in Florence, where a group of cultured expatriate English women – the Scorpioni – meet for tea every afternoon.

Young Luca is the out-of-wedlock son of an Italian businessman who has little interest in his son's upbringing; the boy's seamstress mother has recently died.

Mary Wallace, the man's secretary, steps in to care for Luca, seeking sup