He marries her, Serena Rossi in the fiction about a woman forced to resist

Willing to do anything to help her mother (Mariella Lo Sardo), brothers and debts, Maria agrees to marry the stranger, giving up the only love of her life, Antonio (Mario Sgueglia). Which is in Belgium and hasn’t heard of it for a long time. Arriving at the altar she discovers that hers is a marriage by proxy: the husband is actually the grandson Italo (Giorgio Marchesi).

In a remote farmhouse in the Venetian countryside, alone and cold, she finally knows Italo. Shy, gloomy and of few words, he is a man who hides a great pain: the mysterious disappearance of his wife Giorgia. There is no peace and consider Maria an intruder. While his son Paolino (Antonio Nicolai), isolated and wild, he stopped going to school, preferring also to sleep in the stable.

Stubborn and sensitive, with its sweetness Maria breaks through the heart of the child. She takes care of it just like a mother, establishing a relationship of love and trust. Alone Italo continues to view it as a threat. Two opposite characters forced to be together will they be able to love each other? Maria will it melt Italo’s iron armor?

Maria, an emancipated woman

After Mina September Serena Rossi returns to embody a strong female figure, who does not bow to hostilities and abuses. In a peasant and traditionalist cultural context, where patriarchy reigns and radical transformations are hardly accepted.

Here women are silenced, except one: Maria, with exceptional energy. Harassed and marginalized with phrases like: “Go back to your country, terun!”. Legacy of a distant but still current past.

Serena Rossi together with the actor Giorgio Marchesi, co-star of the series. (Endemol)

Emblem of a tragic heroine that comes from the past and speaks to the present, Maria fights against the discrimination of a male-dominated society, in a historical context of great political, economic and social changes.

Mow the wheat. Collects tomatoes. Drive the tractor. She bends over her knees and picks up the hazelnuts and feeds the pigs. It adapts to the toughest working conditions.

In the name of rights for all

Driven by the desire for truth, justice and revenge assert its rights. But above all, use the strength of kindness without asking for anything in return. And it wins. This is his achievement and teaching which it imparts to the men around it.

He fights for the right to education, so that Paolino goes back to school to be free, independent and have the ability to build a different future.

Giorgio Marchesi, Serena Rossi and Antonio Nicolai. (Endemol)

Reflection on the condition of women, The bride it therefore addresses very topical issues such as gender equality and imposed roles. On women no longer willing to suffer forms of prevarication and subordination.

Serena Rossi Matteo Valentini Mariella Lo Sardo, Giulia D’Aloia.

Serena Rossi: “I recognize myself in his resilience”

“The bride speaks of the past, but also of the future. It is a story of female emancipation and hospitality – says Serena. Maria is a different one. In her I saw my grandmother which failed when we were shooting“.

These are aspects that have greatly impressed the actress. “I loved this character because he has a candor in his eyes. Suffers with dignity. He endures machismo, he resists in silence but not because he is weak. You see beyond. I recognize myself in his patience and resilience. In the desire to work e in his great sense of family“.

It’s still:: “The women of yesterday paved the way for those of today although much remains to be done, but we must never give up. This Mary teaches us ».

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