Netflix has set a February 15 release date for its new Italian original series "The Law According to Lidia Poët," a period piece about Italy's first female lawyer.
The show will premiere worldwide about a month after Elena Ferrante's well-received Netflix adaptation, "The Lying Life of Adults." It features Italian rising star Matilda De Angelis, who appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in "The Undoing," as her title character. This, combined with the feminist narrative, could help give it international weight.
Creators: Guido Iuculano, Davide Orsini
Stars: Sara Lazzaro, Matilda De Angelis, Nicolo Pasetti
The 6-episode procedural is directed by Matteo Rovere and Letizia Lamartire.
One of the mottos of the series is: "If God had wanted you to be a lawyer, he would not have made you a woman."
“Lidia Poët” reconstructs the true story of the Italian woman who at the end of the 19th century in Turin fought a legal battle to be able to practice as a lawyer after a court order prohibited her from doing so. Penniless but full of pride, Lidia finds a job at her brother Enrico's law firm, where she prepares an appeal that will overturn the court's ruling. She thus became the first female lawyer in Italy.
Pier Luigi Pasino plays Enrico Poët, Lidia's brother, while Sara Lazzaro and Sinéad Thornhill play Teresa Barberis, Enrico's wife, and Marianna Poët, her daughter, respectively. Dario Aita is Andrea Caracciolo and Eduardo Scarpetta plays the progressive journalist Jacopo Barberis.
Matteo Rovere (“Romulus”) co-directed with Letizia Lamartire (“Baby”). The series, produced by Rovere's Greenland tile, which is part of the Banijay Group, is written by Guido Iuculano, Davide Orsini, Elisa Dondi, Daniela Gambaro and Paolo Piccirillo.
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