6 Italian Genre-Busting Shows to Stream
variety.comNick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe latest batch of Italian TV series for the international market is a mix of genres spanning from a new Elena Ferrante adaptation made for Netflix, to two RAI reconstructions of the country’s terrorism-plagued past and Sky’s spaghetti Western “Django.”DjangoThis English-language reimagining of the world of “Django,” the cult 1966 Sergio Corbucci spaghetti Western that launched the career of Italian icon Franco Nero, is a Sky Studios and Canal Plus original.
The show’s cast includes Noomi Rapace, Nicholas Pinnock and Matthias Schoenaerts. Director Francesca Comencini has called it “a universal story with a narrative that celebrates diversity and minorities.”Esterno Notte Marco Bellocchi is in post on this limited TV series from RAI Fiction about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.
The veteran helmer previously recounted Moro’s still-mysterious abduction from the viewpoint of one of his captors in the 2005 film “Good Morning, Night.”The General’s MenItaly’s Stand by Me and RAI have co-produced “The General’s Men,” the country’s most ambitious reconstruction of the country’s battle against the Red Brigades terrorists to air on RAI this fall.
The eight-episode series, directed by Lucio Pellegrini (“The Miracle”), follows the efforts of a special paramilitary unit set up by a high-ranking police official, Gen.
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