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Netflix films world literature: “The Leopard” as a series
Between yesterday and tomorrow: A mini series shows the 19th century Italy in a phase full of upheavals. Available from March.
Netflix has filmed the Italian literary classic “The Leopard” as a mini series. Streaming start of the high-gloss project is on March 5, as the streaming service announced. The main role of the Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, plays Kim Rossi Stuart. Benedetta Porcaroli can be seen as Concetta, Deva Cassel as Angelica and Saul Nanni as Tancredi.
The six-part series is based on the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957). Tom Shankland (“House of Cards”) directs with Giuseppe Capotondi and Laura Luchetti at his side.
“Based on one of the greatest Italian novels of all time,” The Leopard “is a dazzling-sensible epic that plays against the background of the revolution in the Sicily of the 1860s and explores classic topics such as power, love and the price of progress.”
The focus of history is Don Fabrizio Corbera, the prince of Salina, who enjoys a life full of beauty and privileges. But the approaching foundation of Italy questions the old aristocratic order and thus the future of his family. For Don Fabrizio, it is time to close new alliances – alliances that all threaten his principles.
Luchino Visconti had already filmed the novel in 1963, a few years after it appeared. The drama with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon is considered a masterpiece. The young Terence Hill performed in a supporting role.
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Source: Stern
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