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Status
Released
Release
2023
Runtime
1h 40m
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Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
23 Cast Members
Jasmine Trinca
Maria Montessori
Leïla Bekhti
Lili d’Alengy
Rafaëlle Sonneville-Caby
Tina d'Alengy
Raffaele Esposito
Giuseppe Ferruccio Montesano
Laura Borelli
Carlotta
Nancy Huston
Betsy
Agathe Bonitzer
Clarisse
Sébastien Pouderoux
Jean Itard
Pietro Ragusa
Le prince
Raffaella Ducrey Giordano
Anna
Georgia Ives
Giorgia
Stefano Abbati
Cesare Lombroso
Gianfranco Poddighe
Guido Baccelli
Renato Sarti
Alessandro Montessori
Patrizia La Fonte
Renilde Montessori
Daniela Macaluso
Sarta
Roberto Zibetti
Le journaliste
Irina Valvilova
La russe chez Betsy
Luciana Castellucci
Mme Montesano
Emily Di Ronza
Une étudiante
