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Bella Germania is a 2019 German 3-part miniseries directed by Gregor Schnitzler, based on Daniel Speck's 2016 book of the same name. The series narrates a German-Italian family story through 65 years (1954-2019). The series consists of three 90-minute episodes: L'Amore - die Liebe (The Love), Il destino – das Schicksal (The Destiny), and Il segreto – das Geheimnis (The Secret).

The series premiered in Germany on ZDF in March 2019, with the episodes shown on 10, 11 and 13 March. In Italy, the series was shown on Rai 1 on 3-4 June 2019, edited into two episodes, under the name "Volevamo andare lontano - Bella Germania" (loosely translated as "We wanted to get far away").

The series starts in medias res in Munich in 2013, when fashion designer Julia Becker (Natalia Belitski) is presenting her first very own collection. She knows little about her family. After unintentionally messing up her presentation by running away, she is approached by an old man, Alexander Schlewitz (Joachim Bißmeier), who introduces himself at her grandfather and tells Julia that her father Vincenzo Marconi is still alive, whilst her mother Tanja (Andrea Sawatzki) had always told her that her father died when she was eight.

Alexander then proceeds to tell Julia his story - in 1954, he was a young junior engineer (young Alexander played by Christoph Letkowski) working in BMW under Fritz Maier (Francis Fulton-Smith. BMW is currently having hard times, and Schlewitz suggests to Maier that they sign a licensing agreement with Italian company Iso to produce Isettas, to which Maier dispatches him to Milan to discuss it with Iso's owner Renzo Rivolta (Giovanni Moschella). However, the language gap proves to be a problem, until Giulietta Marconi (Silvia Busuioc), a young Sicilian woman studying German, who offers herself to interpret. Over time, Alexander and Giulietta begin to fall in love.