
Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
Cast

Alessio Boni
Giacomo Puccini

Sophie von Kessel
Elvira

Andrea Giordana
Giulio Ricordi

Francesca Cavallin
Liza

Saša Vulićević
Ghigliozzi

Mirko Petrini
Pietro Mascagni

Stefania Sandrelli
Albina

Pippo Santonastaso
Nicchi

Franco Castellano
Toscanini

Antonio Salines
Giuseppe Giacosa

Alberto Angrisano
Luigi Illica

Pamela Saino
Doria Manfredi

Serena Rossi
Cherie

Ester Botta
Unknown
Federica Picone
Unknown

Veronica Cannizzaro
Contessa Caraffa

Alberto Gimignani
Fontata

Lorenzo Majnoni
Ponchielli

Franziska Weisz
Unknown
Bernd Jeschek
Unknown
Riccardo Polizzy Carbonelli
Unknown

Lorenzo De Angelis
Unknown

Enzo Marino Bellanich
Unknown
Luca Giordana
Unknown

Simon Grechi
Unknown

Lucia Bendia
Unknown

Giuliano Ghiselli
Unknown
Massimo Rinaldi
Unknown
Paolo Poiret
Unknown

Andrea Santonastaso
Unknown

Gennaro Cannavacciuolo
Unknown
Giovanni De Lellis
Unknown

Massimiliano Buzzanca
Unknown
Crew

Giorgio Capitani
Director
Nicola Barnaba
Co-Director

Nicola Lusuardi
Screenplay, Story
Francesco Scardamaglia
Screenplay, Story, Producer
Fabio Campus
Screenplay, Story
Antonio Siciliano
Editor
Claudio Sabatini
Director of Photography
Antonio Silvestre
First Assistant Director
Federico Scardamaglia
Producer
Angelo Zemella
Line Producer

Cosimo Gomez
Production Design
Simona Tartaglia
Casting
Cornelia von Braun
Casting
Enrica Biscossi
Costume Design
Davide Magara
Sound

Marco Frisina
Original Music Composer
Enrico Delle Site
Production Manager
Fania Petrocchi
Delegated Producer
Marco Dionisi
Supervising Producer