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.
Alessio Boni
as Giacomo Puccini
Sophie von Kessel
as Elvira
Andrea Giordana
as Giulio Ricordi
Francesca Cavallin
as Liza
Saša Vulićević
as Ghigliozzi
Mirko Petrini
as Pietro Mascagni
Stefania Sandrelli
as Albina
Pippo Santonastaso
as Nicchi
Franco Castellano
as Toscanini
Antonio Salines
as Giuseppe Giacosa
Alberto Angrisano
as Luigi Illica
Pamela Saino
as Doria Manfredi