New TV shows, movies, documentaries and operas are ready to be delivered worldwide this month at Digital MIPTV, by Rai Com. The Italian pubcaster’s commercial branch presents a Spring lineup of fresh titles including a breeze of new empowered women, charming detectives, top-notch movies, comedies, documentaries and operas.
A brand-new detective crime set in southern Italy is leading Rai’s line-up. Embodied by a strong woman who is fighting the stereotypes within the system: Lolita Lobosco (8×50’). As a single woman dominating a male-oriented workplace, Lolita Lobosco is celebrated by the Italian TV audience as a great character-driven show.
A fearless woman is also the protagonist of Mina Settembre (12×50’). With more than 6 million viewers in Italy, it has been leading the TV scene in the past season. Director Alessandro D’Alatri takes to the screen another book series by Maurizio De Giovanni: Commissario Ricciardi (6×100’), while award-winning director Daniele Vicari and Emanuele Scaringi teamed up to direct The Alligator (8×50’), a unique mix of film noir and blues music featuring the most famous and beloved character invented by controversial Italian novelist Massimo Carlotto.
The iconic Commissario Montalbano with its last episode The Catalanotti Method that scored another record on Rai1’s prime time with 38.4% share and over 9 million viewers. The production company Palomar together with Rai Fiction will decide the destiny of this top selling TV show. Crime thriller Standing Tall (8×50’) is a fast-paced TV series. Actor Alessandro Gassmann plays the role of Valerio, an ex-policeman determined to hunt for the truth behind his son’s assassination.
Rai’s romantic costume drama The Ladies’ Paradise continues with a new season of daily episodes, for a total of 5 seasons and 540 episodes of 50’ each. Set between the ‘50s and ‘70s the show brings back to life a revolutionary store in Milan where beauty and luxury are the polished background of a hostile environment.
About Movies, Rai Com launches titles from Alessandro Grande, Volevo Nascondermi (Hidden Away), Ginevra Elkann (With If Only, sentimental comedy about three kids of divorced parents), Gabriele Salvatores (All my crazy Love, about a life-changing road trip of a wedding singer and his autistic son). The lineup also features two entertaining comedies: Divorce in Las Vegas and A son named Erasmus.
On the documentaries side, director and movie critic Marco Spagnoli brings to the screen a documentary portrait of Federico Fellini in Fellini. I’m a Clown (50’). In Only Together (50’) the Pope, who is widely recognized to be the People’s Pope, is told through the eyes of journalist Gualtiero Peirce, who had exclusive access to the Vatican Media Archive.
Academy-Award winner director Gabriele Salvatores goes back to the language of collective documentary with a report of Italy during the lockdown in It was spring outside (75’). Bosnia Express (52’/70’) takes the viewer to a trip through the history that crossed Bosnia and Herzegovina. And The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca as it has never been seen before in The Most Beautiful Painting in The World (60’).
Last but not least, the performing art’s offering this year features three unique operas: a unique event shot and streamed live from the Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, portaits a Salome as a victim of abuse. The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma brings on stage the Traviata. While the Teatro Comunale di Bologna performs the Adriana Lecouvreur.
