"Elisa di Rivombrosa" (2003) TV series

Director:

Cinzia Th. Torrini

Writers:

Marco Alessi (writer)
Piero Bodrato (writer)

Release Date:

8 January 2006 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Cast

Jane Alexander	...	Lucrezia Van Necker
Victor Alfieri	...	Zanni LaMorte (2005)
Leandro Amato	...	Ninì (2005)
Sergio Assisi	...	Nicola di Conegliano (2005)
Raffaello Balzo	...	Armand Benac (2005)
Linda Batista	...	Isabella
Valentina Beotti	...	Lucia Ceppi
Regina Bianchi	...	Countess Agnese Ristori
Cesare Bocci	...	Antonio Ceppi
Gaetano Cafaro	...	Ciro (2005)
Kaspar Capparoni	...	Giulio Drago
Paola Carleo	...	Maria (2005)
Pierluigi Coppola	...	Angelo Buondio
Antonio Cupo	...	Christian Grey (2005)
Antonella Fattori	...	Anna Ristori
Emanuela Garuccio	...	Celeste
Isadora Gatti	...	Queen Carolina (2005)
Marina Giordana	...	Artemisia Scalzi
Giovanni Guidelli	...	Victor Benac (2005)
Antonino Iuorio	...	Alvise Radicati di Magliano
Anne-Valérie Lefèvre	...	Madame Roland
Marco Leonardi	...	Gaetano Capece (2005)
Fiorenza Marchegiani	...	Cristinella di Conegliano (2005)
Simona Mastroianni	...	Giannina
Eleonora Mazzoni	...	Margherita Maffei di Barbero
Luis Molteni	...	Don Tognino
Ralph Palka	...	Capitano Terrazzani
Elisabetta Pellini	...	Juliette Benac (2005)
Carlotta Previati	...	Emilia Radicati di Magliano
Alessandro Preziosi	...	Count Fabrizio Ristori
Vittoria Puccini	...	Elisa di Rivombrosa
Stefano Quatrosi	...	Ercole Salvati di Cerreto (2005)
Tommaso Ragno	...	King Vittorio Amedeo III (2005)
Giovanna Rei	...	Betta Maffei di Barbero
Francesca Rettondini	...	Clelia Bussani
Giovanni Rizzuti	...	Titta
Pamela Saino	...	Orsolina
Antonio Salines	...	Jean Luc Beauville
Micol Santilli	...	Agnese Ristori at 3 (2005)
Monica Scattini	...	Eugenia Bonomi (2005)
Paola Sebastiani	...	Checca
Pietro Sermonti	...	Beppo
Riccardo Simone Sicardi	...	Martino
Sabrina Sirchia	...	Bianca Buondio
Sergio Solli	...	Domenico (2005)
Daniel Tschirley	...	Martino Ristori at 16 (2005) (as Daniel T. Shirley)
Marzia Ubaldi	...	Amelia
Benedetta Valanzano	...	Immacolata (2005)
Filippo Valle	...	(2003)
Danilo Maria Valli	...	Gasparo
Massimo Vanni	...	(2003)
Ivan Venini	...	Fra Simone (2005)
Vittorio Viviani	...	Lodovico Maffei di Barbero
Luca Ward	...	Ottavio Ranieri

Runtime:

50 min (26 episodes)

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Filming Locations:

Castello, Agliè, Italy

Company:

Nimar Studios

Trivia:

First shown in Germany in 2008 (NDR, start Feb 5, 2008).

Quotes:

Christian Grey: Elisa, I'm sorry for yesterday night. I didn't think the things I told you. I decided to leave with you.
Elisa di Rivombrosa: Are you serious? Will you give up your revenge?
Christian Grey: Yesterday night you asked me to choose and I did it. I can't live anymore without you!
Elisa di Rivombrosa: I love you!

The bottomless pit of mediocrity

WATCH THIS if you wanna see the worst in Italian television. Bad acting, nonsense plot, please-help-me-suicide music, and probably the fluffier teleplays of all time. If you watch the first episode with friends, then you can start playing the funny game of guessing what will happen next. Whatever you imagine, it will be more interesting, intelligent and witty than the episodes' plots. More than twenty years ago, I used to watch Mexican soap operas with my mum (I was a kid, and that gave me some problems I am still trying to solve today). Rivombrosa resembles those Veronica Castro performances that ruined my psyche forever. More than twenty years, and not a single sign of evolution in Italian television. We have absorbed the worst from every import serial we've been broadcasting through the years. All right, I know that Italy lacks a J.J. Abrams and that shows like "Lost", "X-files", "Miami Vice" or whatever you love most are probably things we will see once in our lifetime BUT this does not allow untalented people like Cinzia Th Torrini (what does that look-how-noble-I-am-I-have-a-double-surname TH stand for?) to direct an idiocy like this.