Up at the Villa

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.

Cast

Kristin Scott Thomas

as Mary Panton

Sean Penn

as Rowley Flint

Anne Bancroft

as Princess San Ferdinando

James Fox

as Sir Edgar Swift

Derek Jacobi

as Lucky Leadbetter

Jeremy Davies

as Karl Richter

Roger Hammond

as Colin Mackenzie

Dudley Sutton

as Harold Atkinson

Massimo Ghini

as Beppino Leopardi

Lorenza Indovina

as Nina

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