SERIES 12 x 100' - Mediaset Distribution.com

MEDIASET GROUP Creative Management - design M.Grazia Garofano
Presents
with
ALESSANDRO GASSMAN
ANNA VALLE
PAOLO SEGANTI
MARTINA STELLA
Directed by
ANTONELLO GRIMALDI
Screenplay by
PIERO BORDATO
MARCO ALESSI
RICCARDO MAZZA
ANNA MITTONE
BARBARA ROSSI PRUDENTE
DARDANO SACCHETTI
CREDITS NOT CONTRACTUAL
Produced by
ANGELO RIZZOLI
Realised by
RIZZOLI AUDIOVISIVI S.p.A.
SERIES 12 x 100’
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MEDIASET GROUP Creative Management - design M.Grazia Garofano

T
he story begins on the eve of the
second world war and follows
the fortunes and misfortunes of
the Castelli family, important
industrialists. Claudia, the daughter,
has fallen for Gianni, son of a
blue-collar worker, but Claudia’s
father arranges for the boy to be called
up to military service hoping to cool the
passion between the two. Following damage to the
factory by air raids, the business is on the edge of
ruin, but Claudia has met Sergio, who manages to
save the family business from ruin. Although still in
love with Gianni, who has changed after his return
from the war and rejects her, Claudia is forced to
follow her father’s wishes and marry Sergio when
she finds her father about to attempt suicide after
the death of her mother.
“The seasons of the heart” tells the story of two
people made for each other, who are unrelentingly
separated by events out of their control, which
change them. Claudia must face the road of independence
and autonomy, a woman forced to find
her place in changing times outside the usual
family role. Only then, free of their respective roles,
may they find true happiness. But it is Gianni who
will be the real villian of the story, returning like a
ghost to oppose the love of Sergio and Claudia.
And the story continues, with their daughter, Emma,
who must face the problems of adolescence during
the 1960’s, a difficult period for an upper middle
class child in front of an era of youthful rebellion.
Until one day, she meets a fasctinating and restless
young man, son of a mysterious father...
This story follows the lives and families of the characters
in a period wrought with sudden change.
A genuine social commentary on life and growing
up during a period spanning 30 years of Italian
history, from the reconstruction after the war years,
the boom years, the first workers movements
and the sharpening of social struggle.