In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.
Directed by Pietro Marcello
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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Eleonora Duse

Fanni Wrochna
Désirée

Noémie Merlant
Enrichetta Checchi

Fausto Russo Alesi
Gabriele D'Annunzio

Edoardo Sorgente
Giacomo Rossetti-Dubois

Vincenzo Nemolato
Memo Benassi

Gaja Masciale
Cecilia Rinaldi

Vincenza Modica
Matilde Serao

Mimmo Borrelli
Ermete Zacconi
Savino Paparella
Luciano Nicastrelli

Vincenzo Pirrotta
Benito Mussolini

Federico Pacifici
Saturnino Ciarcelluti

Marcello Mazzarella
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo

Noémie Lvovsky
Sarah Bernhardt
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