"Drinking Tea with Mussolini"

Kennedy 2022-01-17 08:02:21

The literature of Shakespeare and the beauty of Florence's architecture, Franco Zeffirelli combined the experience of Anglo-American women and Italian boys in World War II through his best field into a beautiful and moving story.

In fact, the story itself is not new, even too dramatic. However, Italian humor harmonizes all the excessive drama to the right degree, and the lack of explanation is not so important. The trauma of war and the suffering of growing up under the tenacity of the personality are nothing more than the supporting role of the disease-free groan.

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    Title Card: Florence 1935.

    Title Card: The love affair between the artistically-inclined English community and Florence was soon to be overshadowed by the clouds of war.

    Title Card: But at the moment the sun is still shining on the squares and statues, and the dictator Mussolini is the gentleman who makes the trains run on time.

    Connie Raynor: Excuse me, are you the Consul?

    British Consul: Yes.

    Connie Raynor: Connie Raynor of the Morning Post. I'm fascinated to know what His Majesty's Consul in Florence makes of it all?

    British Consul: I can't believe your readers would be interested in our little ceremony.

    Connie Raynor: Oh, they are. Since Mussolini, we can't get enough of Italy.

  • British Consul: We live in an age of great dictators.