TOadaptation of the English series The Splitat 21.25 tonight it starts on Rai 1 Studio Battaglia, legal dramedy in 8 installments with a roaring cast consisting of Lunetta Savino, Barbora BobulovaMassimo Ghini and Miriam Dalmazio.
The fiction, directed by Simone Spada, observe family dynamics and love relationships through the most original of points of view. That is the namesake firm of divorce lawyers in Milan where the intricate events of the series and the protagonists are concentrated.
Studio Battaglia: plot and previews of the first episode
Milan, city area. Marina Battaglia (Savino bezel) she is one of the most sought after divorce lawyers in the city. Of the three daughters, Violet (Marina Occhionero) is one girl with no apparent ambitions, who is limited to babysitting. After all, she is the smallest. Anna (Barbora Bobulova) e Nina (Miriam Dalmazio) instead they followed in mom’s footsteps; though Studio Battaglia it begins with Anna leaving the family studio for join rival of Zender and Associates.
The ex-husband George (Massimo Ghini), there is no more news: twenty-five years earlier he had abandoned Marina and her family to escape to the French Riviera with the babysitter. Until she reappears in front of Anna, a few days after the job transfer in the competing studio. It is a return that triggers a series of accidents and dynamics, which soon lead the women of the Battaglia family to clash Between them.
Barbora Bobulova. (Photo by Matteo Graia)
Giorgio, however, is not the only event that disrupts the life of the Battaglia. Long married to Alberto (Thomas Trabacchi), Anna starts dating Massimo, a love of the past that perhaps you have never forgotten. Unfortunately for her the man seems more interested in his sister Nina.
Viola, one step away from her wedding with Giovanni (Alessandro del Vecchio), is prey to doubts. In the end Roberto Parmegiani – entrepreneur who in the divorce case is forced to choose Marina Battaglia because Anna is the lawyer of his wife Carla – pits against mother and daughter, suddenly rivals in court.
In addition, it emerges that Giorgio did not make a real escape, which is not the faithless one painted by Marina. How will the sisters react to this revelation?
The words of the protagonists
Great enthusiasm for the protagonists. At the press conference Barbora Bobulova said: «I am all female characters full of nuances. Smart women who fight battles at work and in the sentimental field. When they gave me this role, I got a little paranoid. The Split it’s a very well done series and the comparison makes life difficult to us actors “.
Lunetta Savino, equally radiant, added that “this is a new character for me. This story, already on paper, was a winner. I was looking forward to having an unfair mother! She is a woman who keeps her affection well disguised. Even as a woman, she has a very different position, he prefers to be called a lawyer, to the male. It was a great pleasure to play her ».
From left to right: Miriam Dalmazio, Barbora Bobulova, Lunetta Savino and Marina Occhionero at the “Studio Battaglia” photocall. (Getty Images)
The original series The Split
Created by Abi Morgan in 2018 for the BBC, The Split is a much loved series by British critics. At the center of the story is the female world of working divorce lawyers in the London studio of the Defoe. The plots are divided between court cases, the life of the protagonists mixed with that of the customers. With particular attention to the internal dynamics of the institution marriage, to the feelings at stake when in the couple there are careers that exclude a certain intimacy over time.
A crisis that – more frequently than imagined – wears straight to the death of the relationship. Territory that the series examines very frankly.
The protagonists of “The Split”. (Bbc)
Unpublished in Italy, The Split already counts two seasons. The third is scheduled to air in 2022 – and with a variation of focus, it seems: instead of the separations of others, the Dafoe sisters will have to do everything to prevent it’s up to them to sign the divorce papers.
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