Vivere (1999)

Genre

soap opera

Country

Italy

Elsewhere

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How it feels

This is a soap opera about four families living in a wealthy town in Northern Italy. The story follows their personal and public affairs, including arranged marriages, secret love affairs, and family conflicts in settings like villas and hotels.

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What happens

Vivere ("Living") is an Italian soap opera created by Cristiana Farina and Lorenzo Favella that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2007 on Canale 5 and afterwards from 2007 to 2008 on Rete 4, with reruns currently showing on La5 and Mediaset Italia. The series was directed by Daniele Carnacina and Massimo Del Frate. Vivere was also the first fully Italian soap opera about hope, desire and dreams of four families. The series about four families which lives in Como, a rich, provincial town in Northern Italy. The protagonists of the story is Bonelli's, a family of restaurators from lower-middle class, Moretti's, whose head of the family a rich businessman and his handsome son a journalist, and a family of successful doctors De Carolis – Falcon. Plot of the series takes place in and around the ancient villas, hotels, restaurants, clinics and gyms. In this environment erupt private and public affairs whose consequences tension and intrigue such as arranged marriages, illicit love affairs, terrifying secrets and powerful games. Guided by emotions, passions and dreams characters follow their heart, desires and instincts that are connected or separated. Such relationships built bittersweet picture of life in the Italian suburb, which is actually similar to the everyday life of each of us. Dialogue writers, scriptwriters and directors have worked to make 5 episodes per week; episodes that were recorded indoors (30 fixed sets covering about 1400 m2) and externally (5 new locations per week) moving a technical staff of over 80 people (for photography, in the studio Enzo Ghinassi, in external Nicola Civarelli). Internal filming was carried out at the Profit studios of Milan until July 2004. and subsequently they had been transferred to the television studios of TeleCittà in San Giusto Canavese, next to those of CentoVetrine. The external shots were taken in Como and in its province, especially in Cernobbio. The soap opera dealt with the life of the members of the various main families, told in the background of a rich provincial town, Como. Over the years there have been numerous families: Bonelli, Gherardi, Falcon/De Carolis, Canale/Leoni, Moretti/Monteleone/Sarpi, Blasi, Draghi and Ponti. In the month of October 2007, Mediaset has decided to abandon the soap opera for low viewership which had to the restyling that it has quickly and Vivere from 26 December 2007 is moved on Rete 4, the 22 resumptions were finished February 2008 and the episodes were being broadcast until 23 May 2008. In Croatia, it was broadcast from May to August 2003 (only 60 episodes from Season 1) and reprised from July to late October 2006 (approx. 85 episodes). As of 2023, the entire series has been made available through Mediaset Infinity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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