LIDIA POET TV SERIES
1ST MATILDA DE ANGELIS PHOTO
I'm bringing you a very special treat today: updates on some of the European costume drama that we can expect in the future, beginning with the first
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First look at Matilda de Angelis as Lidia Poet
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photo of Leonardo's
Matilda de Angelis in her new
Netflix series
LIDIA POET. It is from the set, so not of best quality but it gives you an idea of the costumes she will be wearing in it. Matilda, whom you remember from HBO's
The Undoing series and Aidan Turner's
Leonardo, leads this new Italian Netflix procedural series which reconstructs the true story of the Italian woman who in late 19th century Turin fought a legal battle to be allowed to practice as a lawyer after she was forbidden to do so by a court order. Then in 1883, after the legal battle, she became Italy’s first female lawyer.
Romulus helmer
Matteo Rovere is directing. Stay tuned for more info on the series as we get new updates.
BRIGANTI TV SERIES
SETS LEAD CAST AT NETFLIX
Another of the Italian period set series coming soon to
Netflix,
BRIGANTI, has set main cast. This action packed six episode series started shooting last month in Italy. It will follow the adventurous transformation of Filomena (
Michela de Rossi), from an obedient wife to a ruthless
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Michella de Rossi and Matilda Lutz take female leads
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brigandess in mid 19th century: hunted and on the run, she seeks shelter in the woods where she meets a band of brigands ready for anything. Her determination and her cunning will save her life and she, joining them, decides to to give back to the south what had been stolen from them: Garibaldi’s gold. On this path she will meet two women, Michelina (
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Marlon Joubert, Giulio Beranek and Gianmarco Vettori also star
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Lutz) and Ciccilla (
Ivana Lotito), sometimes allies, sometimes enemies, equally determined and unpredictable. Inspired by real characters, a modern, epic tale will also star
Marlon Joubert, Orlando Cinque, Gianmarco Vettori, Federico Ielapi, Giulio Beranek and Adriano Chiaramida. The series will stream on Netflix next year.
AND MOUNTAIN WILL BLOOM
1ST PICS FROM FRENCH SERIES
Up in France, we have first photos from France television's new mini series
AND MOUNTAIN WILL BLOOM (Et la montagne fleurira), a six part saga based on
Françoise Bourdon’s novel “Le Mas des Tilleuls,”! Set in 1837 in
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Guillaume Arnault leads the cast of the new series
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Provence, it follows a man, Jean
Baptiste
(Guillaume Arnault), who was banned from this childhood home by his father after being wrongfully accused of having abused his step
mother, Seraphine (
Hélène de Fougerolles).
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The six part series will air on France Television
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Jean Baptiste runs away to
live with his aunt and eventually become a merchant of rare flowers and
finds love with Lila. But his happiness is crushed when a revolt spreads
across Provence, forcing him to reclaim rights over his family property
and confronts wounds from his childhood.
