Moon And The Stars, The

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1939: Rome stands on the brink of the Second World War. Europe's political situation is a tense standoff between two blocks: the British and French liberal democracies against German Nazism and Italian Fascism. Mussolini's Italian government has signed "The Pact of Steel" with Hitler's Germany, before occupying Albania and passing racial discrimination laws. In the midst of this political and social tension, the producer Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina), is making a major film: "Tosca" stars the German Kristina Baumgarten (Catherine McCormack), and the English actor James Clavel (Jonathan Pryce), and is to be directed by the Hungarian Lazlo Molnar (Andras Balint). The two lead actors - the German woman and the Englishman - face each other's initial antagonism and finally fall in love. Meanwhile the fascist police are looking for an excuse to arrest the Jewish filmmaker and any other potential "troublemakers". The banks withdraw their backing, and the situation gets more and more intense. The producer is advised to leave before the war starts and it becomes too late. The producer and the crew decide to make one final extraordinary effort to complete the film over one night against all odds. Will they succeed? Will they get out of Fascist Italy before it's too late?.