Duse

2025·120'

Pietro Marcello

★ 6.8

Letterboxd TMDB #1291202

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.

Cast

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