Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe–maybe even herself–with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.
Release Date: 30 September 1979Runtime: 142 min
Stars:
- Alida Valli
- Carlo Verdone
- Elisabetta Campeti
- Franco Citti
- Fred Gwynne
- Jill Clayburgh
- Matthew Barry
- Mustapha Barat
- Peter Eyre
- Pippo Campanini
- Renato Salvatori
- Roberto Benigni
- Rodolfo Lodi
- Sara Di Nepi
- Veronica Lazar
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
