The Italian series The Good Mothers was presented in the Berlinale Series section, arriving on Disney+ from 5 April. A story of the brave Calabrian women against the silence of the Ndrangheta. The word to protagonists and authors.
The story of three women and their courage to rebel to an archaic system that crushed them, to a mafia chauvinism that made the Ndrangheta the richest and most powerful criminal organization in our country, and beyond. The Good Mothers it is a signed Italian series Disney+arriving on the platform on April 5thin six episodes directed by Julian Jarrold (its some episodes of The Crown) e Elise Amoroso. The first two were presented in the evening at the Berlinale Series. Based on the journalist’s bestseller of the same name Alex Perryis adapted to the screen by Stephen Butchard and is produced by the English House Productions and the Italian Wildside, a company of the Fremantle group.
Deploy all the convincing protagonists, in a meeting with the press in the setting of the historic Hotel Adlon, a few steps from the Brandenburg Gate. Gaia Girace (My Brilliant Friend) as Denise Cosco, Valentina Belle as Giuseppina Pesce, Simona Distefano in the role of Concetta Cacciola, con Micaela Ramazzotti in the role of Lea Garofalo. Together with them, not present in Berlin, Barbara Chichiarelli come Anna Colace, Francis Colella as Carlo Cosco e Andrew Dodero in Carmen’s.
The importance of acting as was immediately underlined sounding board for the story of many women, not only in Italy, who submit to a patriarchal structure“we hope to give love by reaching as many people as possible, in a reality of direct physical and psychological violence”, as he underlines Loving. “A carry so strong that he deserves to become universal. A magistrate changed everything when she decided to investigate clan women, giving them visibility and helping them to undertake a path of denunciation, to make them protagonists. A story I didn’t know in detail, despite being Italian. But as usual, we didn’t want to tell the mafia from the point of view of men, but from that of women. Julian’s initial choice of cramped spaces to shoot helped portray the actual cells they lived in, crushed by men.”
What Jarrold defines as an archaic structure, “in incredibly vivid and dramatic stories, to capture the spirit and live the Calabrian reality. We wanted to avoid glorifying violenceoften with a male point of view, with mafia stories that present a fresh perspective, with the violence around the corner, of which at best only the consequences are seen. We have tried to keep the point of view of the Good Mothers. Going to Calabria we noticed that it is still a delicate issue today”.
About this, Valentina BelleVeronese with a notable Calabrian accent in the series (“the repetitions of Swamy Ruotolo and his family were fundamental”), recalled how filming in Calabria he met many people who still they told her that “the Ndrangheta doesn’t exist, an extraordinary and also terrible journey for me, which really impressed me. Ua lady told me that the state does not exist among them, that they have been abandoned, without a mayor, a priest and garbage. If you grow up where there is no alternative, what is the truth? There is no discussion or certainty. Difficult to realize the environment in which they find themselves, of that cultural system, with their role in society. Those who oppose it are truly heroes. It must be said that even the protection system, in the stories we tell, has failed”.
Grown and matured since the debut years with the night ne The brilliant friend, Gaia Girace pointed out how The Good Mothers allow us to “open our eyes to the Ndrangheta, always shown from a male point of view, between weapons, drugs and money. This time it’s feminine, with the female victims forced to marry at the age of 16, perhaps to a man they didn’t even knowbending all his life to the will of man. But they rebelled and many of them even ended up killed. I hope we can give a message of hope. Denise, my character, fought for justice, maternal love, against silence”.
