After Lazzaro Felice, the film by Alice Rohrwacher in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Timvision and Tempesta team up again for a new project: a TV series based on the novel L’estate Infinita by Edoardo Nesi.
From the pages of a book to the small screen. L’estate Infinita, the story told by Edoardo Nesi, – winner of the Strega Prize in 2011 for Storia della mia gente – will be adapted into a TV series. The agreement to produce the fiction was reached by Timvision and Tempesta, popular these days for the participation in Cannes of their production Lazzaro Felice, directed by Alice Rohrwacher. The screenplay for the series will be in charge of the author himself, Edoardo Nesi, together with Michele Pellegrini, known, among others, for La mafia uccide solo d’estate and Tutto può succedere.
Tuscany in the seventies. Ivo Barrocciai, son of a small manufacturer of blankets, is the protagonist of the story, and he has a big dream: to give life to the largest textile factory in his city. Ivo will try to carry out his project, other characters will join him and his story, like Arianna, a married and bored woman, Cesare “Bestia” Vezzosi, husband of Arianna and real-estate contractor, and the painter Citarella.
