My Brilliant Friend

Nov 27, 2018 (it) Drama [57] Min
  • First Air Date
    Nov 27, 2018
  • Production
    Wildside, Fandango, The Apartment Pictures, uMedia, Mowe, Rai Fiction, HBO, Fremantle Italia, TIMVision
  • Rotten tomato
    81%
  • Original title
    L'amica geniale
  • Release
    Nov 27, 2018
  • it
    -

A friendship that defined a lifetime.

Overview

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Casts

  1. Alba Rohrwacher

    Elena Greco

  2. Irene Maiorino

    Lila Cerullo

  3. Fabrizio Gifuni

    Nino Sarratore

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 3 / Crews : 1

Season 1 ( 2018-11-27)

Based on the international best-selling novel, when the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, starts writing the story of their friendship.

The Dolls

Episode: 1

The Money

Episode: 2

The Metamorphoses

Episode: 3

Dissolving Margins

Episode: 4

The Shoes

Episode: 5

The Island

Episode: 6

The Fiances

Episode: 7

The Promise

Episode: 8

The Story of a New Name ( 2020-02-10)

Based on the second book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, 'The Story of a New Name', this second series sees Lila And Elena both feeling dissatisfied with their lives. Longing for escapism, a trip away threatens to destroy the very nature of their friendship and sends the two young women into very different worlds.

The New Name

Episode: 1

The Body

Episode: 2

Erasure

Episode: 3

The Kiss

Episode: 4

The Betrayal

Episode: 5

Rage

Episode: 6

The Secret Notebooks

Episode: 7

The Blue Fairy

Episode: 8

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay ( 2022-02-06)

Season 3 picks up with Elena and Lila, both now grown women, during the great open sea of the 1970s. Lila took her young son and left her husband and a comfortable life to work as a factory worker in the toughest of conditions, while Elena left the neighborhood to study in Pisa, and is now an author of a successful novel that has paved the way to an affluent and cultivated world. They now navigate a scenario of hopes and uncertainties, still united by their strong and ambivalent bond.

Indecencies

Episode: 1

The Fever

Episode: 2

The Treatment

Episode: 3

Cold War

Episode: 4

Terror

Episode: 5

Becoming

Episode: 6

Try Again

Episode: 7

Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay

Episode: 8

The Story of the Lost Child ( 2024-11-11)

The Separation

Episode: 1

Dispersion

Episode: 2

Compromises

Episode: 3

Earthquake

Episode: 4

The Break

Episode: 5

The Cheat

Episode: 6

The Return

Episode: 7

The Investigation

Episode: 8

The Disappearance

Episode: 9

The Restitution

Episode: 10
Nov 27, 2018 (it)
Drama
[57] Min
  • First Air Date Nov 27, 2018
  • Production
    Wildside, Fandango, The Apartment Pictures, uMedia, Mowe, Rai Fiction, HBO, Fremantle Italia, TIMVision
  • Rotten tomato 81%
Original Title L'amica geniale
it

A friendship that defined a lifetime.

Overview

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer