BRIGANDS TV SERIES
THE QUEST FOR GOLD
To be perfectly hones with you I was quite under the impression that this one was dead as dodo as we first announced it half a decade ago with the batch of Italian originals ordered by Netflix which also included Lidia Poet (which 
streamed last year and has a second season ordered), but it seems BRIGANDS: THE QUEST FOR GOLD will finally arrive to the streamer in the following months. Looking at the cast in the first images that you can see
today it is rather obvious why they kept it hidden and probably won't promote it at all. In this series, set in mid-19th-century southern Italy, a woman forced to go on the run transforms from dutiful wife to the ruthless leader of a group
of bandits. Gorgeous Ernesto D'Argenio leads the cast with Marlon Joubert, Alessio Pratico, Lorenzo de Moor and Giuseppe lo Piccolo.
streamed last year and has a second season ordered), but it seems BRIGANDS: THE QUEST FOR GOLD will finally arrive to the streamer in the following months. Looking at the cast in the first images that you can see
today it is rather obvious why they kept it hidden and probably won't promote it at all. In this series, set in mid-19th-century southern Italy, a woman forced to go on the run transforms from dutiful wife to the ruthless leader of a group |
| It will be a six episode series |
THIS SIX EPISODE SERIES
is
set in Southern Italy, two years after the Unification of Italy: a
woman, forced to escape from her village, joins a particular group of
brigands and she will become one of the most ruthless and strategic
leaders. But she is not the only one to choose this life and soon comes
into contact with other women like her. In order to recover the gold of
the South and restore hope to the peasants, the various bands of
brigands will have no choice but to unite against the common enemy.
Brigands against State, but also brigands against brigands, in a
struggle where one must be willing to sacrifice even one's humanity to
overcome the oppressors. Dense forests, immense glades and desolate
landscapes create a precise image
system in which the characters come
into intimate contact with the wilderness, becoming an integral part of
it. Confined to the edges of civilization and forced to live like beasts
to survive in hostile places, this environment changes them forever and
brings out their darker, more 
primitive side. A little bit Robin Hood, a
little bit Pirates, the bandits protagonists acquire wealth and power
to replace the State. A violent criminality is born where the only
option to survive is to become an unscrupulous outlaw.
system in which the characters come
into intimate contact with the wilderness, becoming an integral part of
it. Confined to the edges of civilization and forced to live like beasts
to survive in hostile places, this environment changes them forever and
brings out their darker, more 
primitive side. A little bit Robin Hood, a
little bit Pirates, the bandits protagonists acquire wealth and power
to replace the State. A violent criminality is born where the only
option to survive is to become an unscrupulous outlaw.
I don't even remember you telling us about this one. I'm surprised they're pushing it through if it's been in the works for 10 years+.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about it for years but it was called Briganti.
DeleteAnd those brigands from Sicily and Southern Italy are the ancestors of the Mafia and the Camorra. Italy is not a country that should be proud of its bandit past.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, isn't it lovely how they try to justify crime almost as if crime exists to fight crime LOL
DeleteBullshit. The bandits were patriots who fought against the Piedmontese armies in the South, like Ira, they had nothing to do with mafia and camorra, evryone with a functional brain cell know this
DeleteWell, there is another viewpoint.
DeleteNope, Italy is a really complex reality, even now, with a complex history unlike other Nations like Spain, England or USA.Brigants were seen from the Northen army, the invasors, as ruthless criminal but for the Southern people they were patriots who fought to establish the old kingdom of Two Sicily. Just to say it's the first I read mafia = brigantaggio, seriously.... is this a joke? mafia and brigantaggio are nothing alike, and brigants were not mafia's ancestors, or camorra... mafia and camorra were the first to support Piedmonteses and Garibaldi, in the alst century many brigants were killed by the mafia, read a book
DeleteThanks for the history lesson, you could also buy a book or two in good manners because your language is seriously lacking in some politeness. Happy New Year to all the good people in Italy.
DeleteWhat a way to start a year, Gattocito! At least we didn’t get an earthquake like poor Japan! I was flabbergasted by our newcomer’s reactionary views. I didn’t know there were people in Italy that advocated for the return of the Bourbons and repudiated the Unification of Italy. It’s like someone would applaud Benedict Arnold’s for wanting USA to continue being a British Colony. We live and learn.
DeleteFor Diana92 What a way to start a year, Gattocito! At least we didn’t get an earthquake like poor Japan! I was flabbergasted by our newcomer’s reactionary views. I didn’t know there were people in Italy that advocated for the return of the Bourbons and repudiated the Unification of Italy. It’s like someone would applaud Benedict Arnold’s for wanting USA to continue being a British Colony. We live and learn.
DeleteMy Dear Woman, I may have been a tad cavalier in narrowing the distance between your Fra Diavolo characters and the actual mafia (by the way American readers, Sicilian Mafia is not exactly like organized crime in USA) or Camorra, but it established two precedents, a kingdom of outlaws that dominated rural areas and an easy acceptance of live styles connected to crime.
Despite the fact that my mother’s family come from the North, I don’t have a warped viewpoint of the South, I don’t adhere to the “Cristo e fermato a Eboli” maxim, and yet..I have read plenty of books, have spoken to many academics, but I have never found an promoter of the Borboni who themselves were Spanish colonizers. Garibaldi, the House of Savoy and “the Piamontese invaders” brought reform, liberalism and other democratic values, to the Kingdom of the Two Sicklies. So, I cannot view those who opposed them as freedom fighters.
Yes, I know you are referring to a particular geographic spot (Calabria) and a particular time (1860s) and that the Pica Law and other measures did hurt the population and forced some to take arms. The repression was terrible especially against the clergy, but that doesn’t erase two factors, briganti were outlaws and followed a pattern set by bandits and other marauders for centuries; and their cause was connected with all the the Ancien Regime errors and absolutism.
I’m a staunch anti-communist, and deplore the Russian Revolution, but White Russian armies did commit one too many atrocities and the Tzars were not angelic forces that I would follow. Just like the horrors of the French Revolution do not erase that what precede it was retrograde, harsh and change demanding. I’m surprised that such a woke medium like Netflix would get involved in such a project and probably the show will whitewash the counterrevolutionary and religious elements behind this brigantessa’s struggle.
for the same reason Spanish fought French during the napoleonic invasion: it's our land, our king could be a bad king but it's our, not some strangers. Two Sicilies was not perfect but was a kingdom of his own, with kings who were more Neapolitan than Spanish, and this is the difference, king Joseph Bonaparte was a betetr king than Charles IV? Yes, but he was French. Could be Emperor Maximilian a good emperor for Mexico? He could but he was not Mexican, that's all. It's not conservatorism or liberalism but our kings, our men vs invasor kings and invasor army, the same reason for the IRA, the ETA and other
DeleteAs always it's a privilege knowing different points of views although I cannot agree with you. It reminds me of Il Gattopardo. "Things have to change so they can remain the same". I'm a conservative, to many I am a reactionary, but I don't buy that local brands of evil are better than foreign good. Maximilian would have been a better choice for Mexico than those who ruled after him. The return of the Bourbons to Spain came together with repression of any progressive ideas. And yet, Italians were the ones that got rid of a bona fide national ruler in 1943. By the way, I am a monarchist but I rather have the Duke of Aosta ruling Italy than see a Borbon restoration, and I like the Duke of Calabria.
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