Summary: Film adaptation of Puccini's opera: the action takes place in Rome, during the battle of Marengo. The famous singer Floria Tosca, lover of the painter Mario Caravadossi, a noble man with liberal convictions, is also loved by the baron Scarpia, the minister of pontifical police. Scarpia suspects the painter to hide a political prisoner who has recently escaped from the castel Sant'Angelo. He provokes Tosca's jealousy against the Marchesa Attavanti, of whom Caravadossi is painting the portrait.

Genres: Drama, Musical

Country: France, Germany, Italy, UK

Directed By: Benoît Jacquot

Written By: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, Victorien Sardou

Starring: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi, Sorin Coliban, Enrico Fissore, Maurizio Muraro

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