Overview - My Brilliant Friend

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Spoken Languages

  • Italiano

Production companies

  • Name: Wildside

    Production country Italy

  • Name: Fandango

    Production country Italy

  • Name: The Apartment Pictures

    Production country Italy

  • Name: uMedia

    Production country Belgium

  • Name: Mowe

    Production country Italy

  • Name: Rai Fiction

    Production country Italy

  • Name: HBO

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Fremantle Italia

    Production country Italy

  • Name: TIMVision

    Production country Italy

Overview

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

Seasons

  • Name: Season 1

    Episode: 8

    Based on the international best-selling novel, when the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, starts writing the story of their friendship.

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  • Name: The Story of a New Name

    Episode: 8

    Based on the second book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, 'The Story of a New Name', this second series sees Lila And Elena both feeling dissatisfied with their lives. Longing for escapism, a trip away threatens to destroy the very nature of their friendship and sends the two young women into very different worlds.

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  • Name: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    Episode: 8

    Season 3 picks up with Elena and Lila, both now grown women, during the great open sea of the 1970s. Lila took her young son and left her husband and a comfortable life to work as a factory worker in the toughest of conditions, while Elena left the neighborhood to study in Pisa, and is now an author of a successful novel that has paved the way to an affluent and cultivated world. They now navigate a scenario of hopes and uncertainties, still united by their strong and ambivalent bond.

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  • Name: The Story of the Lost Child

    Episode: 10

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