Mediaset co -produces with lux vide three miniseries

‘The thousand and one nights’, ‘Romeo and Julieta’ and ‘Ana Karenina’ are the three projects in which Mediaset España already works with hand Comn Italian producer Lux Vide.

Mediaset Spain in collaboration with the Italian producer Lux Vide is immersed in the co -production of three miniseries based on great works of universal literature: Romeo and Julieta, tragedy written by William Shakespeare at the end of the 16th century; Her emine, first novel by the writer León Tolstói considered one of the peak works of Russian realism; and Arabian Nights, famous compilation of Arab stories of the medium medieval East.

Arabian Nights, with a script by Lucia Zei (ATELIER FONTANA-Le Sorelle Della Fashion, Love and War) and Paz Vega as the protagonist, tells how a beautiful young man covered by a veil travels the desert while dreaming of hugging the man he loves and who believes he has lost forever. During his search, Sherezade arrives at a castle where a cruel prince lives that kills those who enter his palace. Night after night, the maiden gradually placate the hatred of the prince telling him a story that returns joy and allows him to discover the strength of love.

Trentino, the European region that concentrates the largest number of castles and medieval cities, is the scenario in which it will be filmed Romeo and Julieta, modern television adaptation of the most famous love story of the world created by British novelist William Shakespeare, starting next January. In the role of Romeo, the Coruña actor Martín Rivas (Blind sunflowers, the gift of Alba) heads the cast of this miniseries led by Riccardo Donna (A family médica, mists and crimes).

The fiction follows the story of Romeo Montecchi, firstborn of a noble family facing the Capuleti, a saga to which the beautiful, indomitable and sincere Julieta belongs. Both young people know each other during the celebration of a dance and from that moment an unstoppable passion arises among them that culminates in a deep and mutual love that will face the most difficult obstacles: the ancestral hatred that divides their respective families.

The director himself with Sandy Welch (North & South, Jane Eyrey y It is Tafuri (Coco Chanel, Callas and Onassis) Sign the script of this television production in two deliveries set in the dark and mysterious Middle Ages. A winter atmosphere will impregnate this love story in which the snow white will contrast with the passion of both lovers and the violence between two families that does not seem to have an end.

Considered as one of the peak works of realism by international literary criticism and qualified as a "work of art" by Dostoevski, Her emine, the first novel by Russian writer León Tosltói, will be taken to television thanks to this co -production.

This fiction in two deliveries will have a wide presence of Spanish actresses: Patricia Vico (Carmina, Hospital Central), María Castro (Land of wolves, without tits there is no paradise) and Ángela Molina (Broken hugs, that dark object of desire). In the direction will be Canadian filmmaker Christian Dugay (The art of war, Juana de Arco).