"Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child."
Jasmine Trinca
as Maria Montessori
Leïla Bekhti
as Lili d’Alengy
Rafaëlle Sonneville-Caby
as Tina d'Alengy
Raffaele Esposito
as Giuseppe Ferruccio Montesano
Laura Borelli
as Carlotta
Nancy Huston
as Betsy
Agathe Bonitzer
as Clarisse
Sébastien Pouderoux
as Jean Itard
Pietro Ragusa
as Le prince
Raffaella Ducrey Giordano
as Anna
Georgia Ives
as Giorgia
Stefano Abbati
as Cesare Lombroso
Gianfranco Poddighe
as Guido Baccelli
Renato Sarti
as Alessandro Montessori
Patrizia La Fonte
as Renilde Montessori
Daniela Macaluso
as Sarta
Roberto Zibetti
as Le journaliste
Irina Valvilova
as La russe chez Betsy
Luciana Castellucci
as Mme Montesano
Emily Di Ronza
as Une étudiante
Claudio Giova
as Conseil Scientifique
Enrico Basile
Giacomo Fadda
Alessandra Maccotta
Casting Director
Esther Lowe
Editor
Stefania Valestro
Julie Dupeux-Harlé
Script
Agnès Noden
Costume Designer
Carlo Cresto-Dina
Co-Producer
Justinien Schricke
First Assistant Director
Cédric Berger
Sound Engineer
Pascale Consigny
Decorator
Léa Todorov
Director
Sandie Perez
Grégoire Debailly
Producer
Sébastien Goepfert
Director of Photography
Marco Matteo Donat-Cattin
Writer
Lucie Bouilleret
Production Director
Vito Calabrese
Steadicam Operator
Manon Guichard
Extras Casting
Bérangère Pennec
Extras Casting Assistant
Simon Livet
Key Makeup Artist
Laura Emmanuelle Darracq
Makeup Artist
Jeanne Tassy
Second Assistant Director
Milosz Kubok
Electrician
Andrea Festugato
Francesco Di Matteo
Second Assistant Camera
Clémentine Douel
Nicoletta Maggi
Line Producer
Thibault Bru
Pierre Marion-Andrès
Key Grip
Jonas Gayraud
First Assistant Camera
Marco Moroni
Alessandro Pontillo
Victoria Massih
Etienne Lesur
Gaffer
Simona Pampallona
Still Photographer
Stéphane Germain
Giorgio Innocenzi
Best Boy Electric
Emanuele Salvatore
Best Boy Grip
Choreographer
Johan Van Der Voort
Clément Hervouet
Grip
Gwenaëlle Duriaud
Location Scout
Samuel Aïchoun
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Olivier Pelletier
Sound
Charlotte Butrak
Sound Editor
Alexis Meynet
Dialogue Editor
Antoine Viallefond
Boom Operator
Rémi Boubal
Original Music Composer