La storia (TV series)

La storia is an Italian historical drama television series based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Elsa Morante. It began airing on Rai 1 on 8 January 2024.

Premise
A half-Jewish single mother deals with poverty and persecution in 1940s Rome.

Cast

 * Jasmine Trinca as Ida Ramundo, a single mother of Jewish and Calabrian descent
 * Francesco Zenga as Antonio "Nino" Mancuso, Ida's teenage son
 * Mattia Basciani as Giuseppe "Useppe", Ida's younger son
 * Christian Liberti as young Useppe
 * Valerio Mastandrea as Remo, an innkeeper
 * Elio Germano as Giuseppe "Eppetondo" Cucchiarelli, a communist marble worker
 * Lorenzo Zurzolo as Carlo Vivaldi/Davide Segre, a Jewish student from Mantua
 * Asia Argento as Santina, a prostitute and tarot reader
 * Romana Maggiora Vergano as Patrizia
 * Giselda Volodi as Vilma
 * Anna Ferruzzo as Mrs. Di Segni
 * Enzo Casertano as Tommaso Marrocco
 * Lukas Zumbrock as Günther, a German soldier
 * Flora Gigliosetto as Carulì
 * Ludovica Ciaschetti as Mariolina

Production
Principal photography began in June 2022. The series was largely shot in Rome. Filming also briefly took place in Naples and Anagni.

Release
The first two episodes of the series premiered at the Rome Film Festival on 20 October 2023. The first two episodes aired on Rai 1 two months later, on 8 January 2024, and were watched by 4.5 million viewers.

Reception
Mattia Carzaniga of Rolling Stone Italia commended the series, particularly the performance of Jasmine Trinca, which he referred to as "perhaps her most beautiful and certainly most passionate."