1939: Rome stands on the brink of the Second World War. Europe's political situation is a tense standoff between two blocks: the British and French liberal democracies against German Nazism and Italian Fascism. Mussolini's Italian government has signed 'The Pact of Steel' with Hitler's Germany, before occupying Albania and passing racial discrimination laws. Despite this political and social tension, it seems to be business as usual in the world of Italian cinema: the producer Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina), is making one of his major films with Cinecitt Studios: 'Tosca' stars the German Kristina Baumgarten (Catherine McCormack), the English actor James Clavel (Jonathan Pryce), the handsome Italian actor Alfonso Liguori Roberto Purvis), the gifted young Renzo Daverio (Rupert Friend), and a beautiful young girl named Maria Grazia (Surama De Castro), and is to be directed by the Hungarian Lazlo Molnar. During the 'Tosca' film shoot the two actors, Kristina Baumgarten and the English man J
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Length: 01:42:23 Posted: 3/19/2009
