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My Brilliant Friend

Italian · L'amica geniale

Created by Saverio Costanzo

2018–2024

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.

First aired
27 Nov 2018
Episode length
56 min
Also known as
A Amiga Genial, La amiga estupenda: Las deudas del cuerpo, L'amie prodigieuse, החברה הגאונה שלי
Country
Italy
Language
Italian
Writers
Elena Ferrante, Francesco Piccolo, Laura Paolucci, Saverio Costanzo
Cinematography
Fabio Cianchetti, Hélène Louvart, Ivan Casalgrandi
Music
Max Richter
Editors
Annalisa Forgione, Carlotta Cristiani, Francesca Calvelli, Stefano Mariotti
Executive producers
Daniele Luchetti, Domenico Procacci, Elena Recchia and 5 others
Producers
Daria Hensemberger, Francesco Nardella, Laura Paolucci and 2 others
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 34 episodes

  • Season 1

    2018

    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.

  • The Story of a New Name

    Season 2 · 2020

    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.

  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    Season 3 · 2022

    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.

  • The Story of the Lost Child

    Season 4 · 2024

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