• Year2015
    Episodes 24
    ChannelRAI UNO

    Synopsis

    È arrivata la felicità is a series on Rai Uno (main Italian state TV) about love and family in all its shapes and forms told from an hilarious and contemporary angle. Written by Ivan Cotroneo, Monica Rametta and Stefano Bises and co-directed by Riccardo Milani and Francesco Vicario this series features two very different characters: Angelica (played by Claudia Pandolfi) and Orlando (Claudio Santamaria). They both live in Rome but come from totally different backgrounds: Orlando is an architect, son of sophisticated, left-wing intellectuals, who do volunteer work; Angelica manages a bookshop in the Testaccio neighbourhood, where her parents – slightly close-minded – also manage a legendary neighbourhood bar. When the two meet Angelica, widowed for a few years with two adolescent twin daughters Laura and Bea, is about to marry a sort of Prince Charming, Vittorio. Orlando however, is a very confused full-time father since his wife ran off with her German lover, leaving him to juggle house, job and his two sons: fifteen year old Umberto and Pigi, a mini-philosopher still in primary school.

    What will their meeting spark off?

    This meeting will spark off a cycle of love, illusions, surprises and dynamics fated to also involve Orlando’s brother, Pietro (Alessandro Roja) and the dynamic secretary working in the Architect’s practice – once an expert beautician – Nunzia Esposito (Simona Tabasco); the sweet and complicated Valeria (Giulia Bevilacqua) and Rita (Federica De Cola) – Angelica’s sister and partner, also wrestling with the pregnancy and future life of their first born; Orlando’s parents (Edwige Fenech and Massimo Wertmuller), too busy saving the poor, various outcasts and the Amazon Jungle to be of any real support to their sons; Angelica’s parents (Lunetta Savino and Ninetto Davoli) who have not yet come to terms with their daughter’s, Valeria, sexual identity; and lastly the children themselves, struggling with their growing pains and discovering their own parents’ weaknesses.

    Will Angelica and Orlando ever be happy? This story shows the emotions and excitement of relationships between these characters È arrivata la felicità consequently reflects contemporary society in a modern, ironic and dynamic way without however giving up the universal and fairytale quality.

    The first season was aired from September to December 2015, in 12 primetime evening episodes and was successful with both viewers and critics.

    Artistic Cast

    CAST ARTISTICO

     

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    Claudio Santamaria Orlando Mieli
    Claudia Pandolfi Angelica Camilli
    Alessandro Roja Pietro Mieli
    Giulia Bevilacqua Valeria Camilli
    Edwige Fenech Anna Mieli
    Massimo Wertmuller Guido Mieli
    Ninetto Davoli Giuseppe Camilli
    Lunetta Savino Giovanna Camilli
    Caterina Murino Claudia Lo Russo
    Ettore Bassi Gianluca Tornante
    Myriam Catania Cristiana De Bardi
    Simona Tabasco Nunzia Esposito
    Federica De Cola Rita Nardelli
    Paolo Mazzarelli Vittorio Raimondi
    Tzta’ Abraham Francesca Scuccimarra
    Giorgia Berti Beatrice Tornante
    Greta Berti Laura Tornante
    Andrea Lintozzi Senneca Umberto Mieli
    Francesco Mura Pigi Mieli

    Technical Cast

    CAST TECNICO

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    Regia I Unità /1-4

    Regia I Unità /5-12

    Riccardo Milani

    Francesco Vicario

    Regia II unità Matteo Mandelli
    Una serie ideata da Ivan Cotroneo
    Soggetto di serie Ivan Cotroneo
    Stefano Bises
    Monica Rametta
    Sceneggiatori Ivan Cotroneo
    Stefano Bises
    Monica Rametta
    Direttori della fotografia Saverio Guarna (puntate 1-4)
    Roberto Benvenuti (puntate 5-12)
    Direttori di produzione Publispei Francesco Liberati
    Francesco Merolle
    Direttore di produzione Rai Giorgio Scifoni
    Scenografia Maurizio Leonardi
    Costumi Alberto Moretti
    Aiuto regia I Unità
    Aiuto regia II Unità
    Ciro Visco (puntate 1-4)
    Nicola Gidoni (puntate 5-12)
    Fotografo di scena Rosa Mariniello
    Pierfrancesco Bruni
    Montaggio Patrizia Cesarani
    Francesco Renda A.M.C.
    Musiche originali di Piernicola Di Muro
    Edizioni musicali Bixio C.E.M.S.A
    Rai Com
    Casting Teresa Razzauti
    Organizzatore generale Marina de Tiberiis
    Responsabile Editoriale Benedetta Fabbri
    Produttori Rai Leonardo Ferrara
    Prodotto da Verdiana Bixio

  • Year2018
    Episodes24
    ChannelRAI UNO

    Synopsis

    Orlando and Angelica.

    Destiny allowed them to meet and then fall in love.
    But now, after nearly two years, are they still sure they have made the right decision?
    They live all together under the same roof with Umberto and Pigi – Orlando’s son – Laura and Bea – Angelica’s twins – and their newborn Andrea.
    Everything becomes an opportunity to pick a fight, from an unpaid bill to the cluttered living room..
    Is it worth getting sad and angry about those silly things?
    They’ll be forced to ask themselves this very important question when Angelica finds out she has Hodgkin lymphoma and will have to find the strength to never give up.
    When Orlando and Angelica rediscover the love they used to have for each other, their energy and similarities will push Pietro, Orlando’s brother, to make a huge decision and buy the home of his dreams where, he already pictures himself living with Nunzia.
    While Nunzia and Pietro dream of a future together, Rita and Valeria, Angelica’s two sisters are coping with their marital life and the birth of a new baby. The two will be confronted by a not so distant past which bears the name of Luca.
    Luca will cause Francesca to doubt her decision of chastity that she took after being disappointment by men once again.
    Who is suffering more from Angelica’s illness is definetely Giovanna, her mother, tired of everything and everyone, determined to reconsider her priorities in life, from her religious beliefs to her marriage to Giuseppe. The journey of self.discoveriy will be ancouraged by the encounter with Antongiulio, a very charming man who will make Giovanna feel alive again.
    Guido, Orlando and Pietro’s father , is searching for a reason to smile again, after his wife left him. With the opening of “Antigua Roma”, a new typical Roman trattoria, he seems to find his lost joy when he finally meet Sabaudia.
    Meanwhile Umberto and Laura, the teenagers, will be the ones to be close to Angelica and Orlando, although they break up. They will enjoy their newfound freedom of searching for new friend and perhaps new loves, so typical of adolescence
    Bea, the “evil” twin”, is the one who is affected by her mother’s illness harder than anyone else and while she will find it difficult to accept, she will come out of the other side more mature and understanding..

    Finally Pigi, the youngest but wisest of the family, who always gave relationship advice to the grown-ups, this year will experience himself what it mean to fall in love with someone.

    Artistic Cast

    CAST ARTISTICO

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    Claudio Santamaria Orlando Mieli
    Claudia Pandolfi Angelica Camilli
    Alessandro Roja Pietro Mieli
    Giulia Bevilacqua Valeria Camilli
    Federica De Cola Rita Nardelli
    Lunetta Savino Giovanna Camilli
    Simona Tabasco Nunzia Esposito
    Greta Berti Laura Tornante
    Giorgia Berti Beatrice Tornante
    Andrea Lintozzi Senneca Umberto Mieli
    Francesco Mura Pigi Mieli
    Tezetà Abraham Francesca Scuccimarra
    Primo Reggiani Luca Paternobis
    Massimo Wertmuller Guido Mieli
    Lorenza Indovina Sabaudia
    Ninetto Davoli Giuseppe Camilli
    Tullio Solenghi Antongiulio Martelli

    Technical Cast

    CAST TECNICO

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    Regia Francesco Vicario
    Una serie ideata da Ivan Cotroneo
    Soggetto di serie Stefano Bises

    Ivan Cotroneo
    Monica Rametta

    Head writer Ivan Cotroneo
    Sceneggiature di Ivan Cotroneo
    Monica RamettaGiulia GianniCamilla Paternò
    Scenografia Maurizio Leonardi
    Costumi Alberto Moretti
    Direttori della fotografia Smarco Carosi
    Enzo Napoletano
    Regia II unità Matteo Mandelli
    Casting Teresa Razzauti
    Fotografo di scena Azzurra Primavera
    Montaggio Gino Bartolini

    Tiziana Bartolini

    Musiche originali di Piernicola Di Muro
    Edizioni musicali Bixio C.E.M.S.A
    Rai Com
    Coord. organizzativo CPTV Rai di Roma Stefano Insabato
    Produttore esecutivo Marina de Tiberiis
    Responsabile Editoriale Federica Felice
    Produttori Rai Leonardo Ferrara

    Emanuele Cotumaccio

    Prodotto da Verdiana Bixio