The Ladies' Paradise (TV series)

Italian period drama television series
The Ladies' Paradise
Italian poster
ItalianIl paradiso delle signore
Genre
  • Period drama
  • Romance
  • Soap opera
Country of originItaly
Original languageItalian
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes1.020 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerGiannandrea Pecorelli
Production locationsMilan, Italy
Running time50 min (2015–2017)
40 min (2018–present)
Production companiesRai Fiction
Aurora TV
Original release
Network
  • Rai 1
  • Rai Premium (rerun)
ReleaseDecember 8, 2015 (2015-12-08) –
present

The Ladies' Paradise (also known as Paradise; Italian: Il paradiso delle signore) is an Italian period drama television series on RAI Italian television,[1] loosely based on the 1883 novel Au bonheur des dames by Émile Zola.[2] The series focuses on the lives of the owner and workers of a department store based in Milan.[3]

Cast and characters

  • Giuseppe Zeno as Pietro Mori
  • Giusy Buscemi as Teresa Iorio
  • Alessandro Tersigni as Vittorio Conti
  • Christiane Filangieri as Clara Mantovani
  • Lorena Cacciatore as Lucia Gritti
  • Giulia Vecchio as Anna Imbriani
  • Silvia Mazzieri as Silvana Maffeis
  • Corrado Tedeschi as Carlo Mandelli
  • Alice Torriani as Andreina Mandelli
  • Helene Nardini as Marina Mandelli
  • Andrea Pennacchi as Ezio Galli
  • Riccardo Leonelli as Federico Cazzaniga
  • Alessandro Averone as Bruno Jacobi
  • Filippo Scarafia as Roberto Landi
  • Claudia Vismara as Elsa Tadini
  • Marco Bonini as Corrado Colombo
  • Cristiano Caccamo as Quinto Reggiani
  • Margherita Laterza as Monica Giuliani
  • Valeria Fabrizi as Contessa
  • Antonio Milo as Giuseppe Iorio
  • Alessia Giuliani as Francesca Iorio
  • Fabrizio Ferracane as Vincenzo Iorio
  • Andrea Arcangeli as Mario Iorio
  • Giorgio Capitanias Monsignor Razzi
  • Francesca Valtorta as Valeria Craveri
  • Paolo Bovani as Massimo
  • Guenda Goria as Violetta
  • Roberto Farnesi as Umberto Guarnieri
  • Vanessa Gravina as Adelaide di Sant'Erasmo
  • Gloria Radulescu as Marta Guarnieri
  • Enrico Oetiker as Riccardo Guarnieri
  • Francesco Maccarinelli as Luca Spinelli/Daniele Fonseca
  • Giorgio Lupano as Luciano Cattaneo
  • Marta Richeldi as Silvia Cattaneo
  • Federica Girardello as Nicoletta Cattaneo
  • Alessandro Fella as Federico Cattaneo
  • Enrica Pintore as Clelia Calligaris/Clelia Bacchini
  • Antonella Attili as Agnese Amato
  • Giulio Maria Corso as Antonio Amato
  • Neva Leoni as Concetta "Tina" Amato
  • Emanuel Caserio as Salvatore "Salvo" Amato
  • Giancarlo Commare as Rocco Amato
  • Giulia Petrungaro as Elena Montemurro
  • Federica De Benedittis as Roberta Pellegrino
  • Ilaria Rossi as Gabriella Rossi
  • Francesca Del Fa as Irene Cipriani
  • Giulia Arena as Ludovica Brancia Di Montalto
  • Sara Ricci as Anita Marini
  • Desirée Noferini as Lisa Conterno/Ada Manetti
  • Luca Capuano as Sandro Recalcati
  • Michele Cesari as Cesare Diamante
  • Jgor Barbazza as Oscar Bacchini
  • Gaia Messerklinger as Nora Vitali, in arte Lydia Stanton
  • Gianluca Ferrato as Bernardo

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
120December 8, 2015 (2015-12-08)January 26, 2016 (2016-01-26)
220September 11, 2017 (2017-09-11)November 7, 2017 (2017-11-07)
3180September 10, 2018 (2018-09-10)May 17, 2019 (2019-05-17)
4160October 14, 2019 (2019-10-14)October 9, 2020 (2020-10-09)
5160October 12, 2020 (2020-10-12)May 28, 2021 (2021-05-28)
6160September 13, 2021 (2021-09-13)April 29, 2022 (2022-04-29)
7160September 12, 2022 (2022-09-12)May 5, 2023 (2023-05-05)
8160September 11, 2023 (2023-09-11)May 3, 2024 (2024-05-03)
  • Official website

References

  1. ^ "Il paradiso delle signore: fiction Rai con Filippo Scarafia". La Nazione. 2015-03-12. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  2. ^ B, Brittaney (2018-08-23). "The Ladies' Paradise - This is the Next Period Drama You Should Watch". The Silver Petticoat Review. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
  3. ^ "Il Paradiso delle signore, riprese finite. Messa in onda nell'inverno 2015/2016 – Velvet Cinema – VelvetCinema". velvetcinema.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
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