L'onore e il rispetto
L'onore e il Rispetto is an Italian television series broadcast on Canale 5. It is composed of 4 seasons of six episodes each: the first aired in 2006, the second in 2009 and third in 2012. The fourth season, initially scheduled for the first months of the year, it is broadcast from 1 September 2015. Even before the airing of the said season, Mediaset renewed the series for a fifth season.
The first season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, the second by the same Samperi (who died before the broadcast) and Luigi Parisi, the third and fourth season by the latter and Alessio Inturri. The series is the stepping stone into the world of fiction for the successful couple Manuela Arcuri Gabriel Garko and has hosted several renowned actors, including: Virna Lisi, Giancarlo Giannini, Paul Sorvino, Ángela Molina, Vincent Spano, Eric Roberts, Giuliana De Sio, Ben Gazzara, Ray Lovelock, Alessandra Martines, Lina Sastri, Burt Young, Barbara De Rossi, and Bo Derek.
Mascalucia, Sicily 1956: Ersilia Fortebracci is a dreamer and progressive woman, who dreams of a different life away from Sicily where she lives. When her father in law dies, she convinces her husband Pasquale to sell the estate of the deceased patriarch Rocco, and leave Sicily to start a new life in the north with his two sons Tonio and Santi, with the hope of making a fortune.
In Turin, Ersilia and her family are welcomed by her cousin Nino Vitale, who will introduce to a man, whose name is Pippo 'o Calabrese: this man will help them to invest their savings in an appliance store. But behind this help hide intrigue and trouble, and for the family Fortebracci there is no peace. Pasquale will not be able to defend against the local underworld, who will exploit and push him to suicide in 1965, while Ersilia, unable to bear the pain of her husband's death, loses her mind, ending up in a nursing home. Tonio and Santi, the Ersilia and deceased Pasquale's sons, will become the two protagonists of this history and will make their way, in their own way, to achieve their goals.
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