Netflix Units Launch Date For ‘The Legislation In accordance with Lidia Poët’

Netflix has set a Feb. 15 drop date for its new Italian authentic sequence “The Legislation In accordance with Lidia Poët,” a interval piece about Italy’s first feminine lawyer.

The present will exit globally roughly one month after Netflix’s well-received Elena Ferrante adaptation “The Mendacity Lifetime of Adults.” It options rising Italian star Matilda De Angelis, who appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in “The Undoing,” as its titular character. This, mixed with the feminist narrative, might assist give it worldwide heft.

The 6-episode procedural is directed by Matteo Rovere and Letizia Lamartire.

One of many sequence’ taglines is: “If God needed you to be a lawyer he wouldn’t have made you a lady.”

“Lidia Poët” reconstructs the true story of the Italian lady who in late nineteenth century Turin fought a authorized battle to be allowed to follow as a lawyer after she was forbidden to take action by a court docket order. Penniless however filled with satisfaction, Lidia finds a job at her brother Enrico’s legislation agency the place she prepares an enchantment that may overturn the court docket’s ruling. She thus turned Italy’s first feminine lawyer.

Pier Luigi Pasino performs Enrico Poët, Lidia’s brother, whereas Sara Lazzaro and Sinéad Thornhill respectively play Teresa Barberis, Enrico’s spouse, and Marianna Poët, their daughter. Dario Aita is Andrea Caracciolo and Eduardo Scarpetta performs forward-thinking journalist Jacopo Barberis.

Matteo Rovere (“Romulus”) co-directed with Letizia Lamartire (“Child”). The sequence, produced by Rovere’s Groenlandia shingle, is written by Guido Iuculano, Davide Orsini, Elisa Dondi, Daniela Gambaro and Paolo Piccirillo.

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