BBC R4 - Being Mussolini

BBC R4 - Boothby Graffoe's 'Being Mussolini'

Directed by Claudine Toutoungi

Broadcast January 14, 2006

Coded from tape at 128/44.1



WWII. Italy



Aldo looks and sounds like Benito Mussolini. What with the War,

and a facist struck wife, being il Duce's double is a problem.



A near surreal comedy indebted to Chaplin's Dictator. Funny though.



Cast

Aldo/Mussolini - Omid Djalili

Hitler/Messenger - Ewan Bailey

Violet Gibson - Pauline Mclynn

Giorgo - Gerard McDermott

Doctor - Adam Buxton

Clara - Lia Williams

Nurse - Sophie Roberts

Maria - Cicely Giddings

Pru/Claretta - Ella Smith

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