Mediaset co-produces three miniseries with Lux Vide

'The Arabian Nights', 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Anna Karenina' are the three projects in which Mediaset España is already working hand in hand with the Italian production company Lux Vide.

Mediaset España, in collaboration with the Italian production company Lux Vide, is immersed in the co-production of three miniseries based on great works of Universal Literature: Romeo and Juliet, tragedy written by William Shakespeare at the end of the 16th century; Anna Karenina, the first novel by the writer Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of Russian realism; and Arabian Nights, a famous collection of Arabic tales from the medieval Middle East.

Arabian Nights, with a script by Lucia Zei (Atelier Fontana-Le sorelle della moda, Love and war) and Paz Vega as the protagonist, tells how a beautiful young woman covered by a veil travels through the desert while dreaming of hugging again the man she loves and whom she believes she has lost forever. During her search, Scheherazade arrives at a castle where a cruel prince lives who kills those who enter his palace. Night after night, the maiden manages to gradually appease the prince's hatred by telling him a story that restores his 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 setting in which it will be filmed. Romeo and Juliet, a modern television adaptation of the most famous love story in the world created by the British novelist William Shakespeare, starting next January. In the role of Romeo, the Coruña actor Martín Rivas (The blind sunflowers, The gift of Alba) heads the cast of this miniseries directed by Riccardo Donna (A doctor in the family, Mists and crimes).

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

The director himself along with Sandy Welch (North & South, Jane Eyre) and Lea Tafuri (Coco Chanel, Callas and Onassis) sign the script for this television production in two installments set in the dark and mysterious Middle Ages. A winter atmosphere will permeate this love story in which the whiteness of the snow will contrast with the passion of both lovers and the violence between two families that seems to have no end.

Considered one of the crowning works of realism by international literary criticism and described as a “work of art” by Dostoyevsky, Anna Karenina, the first novel by Russian writer León Tosltói, will be brought to television thanks to this co-production.

This fiction in two installments will have a large presence of Spanish actresses: Patricia Vico (Carmina, Hospital Central), María Castro (Land of Wolves, Without tits there is no paradise) and Ángela Molina (The broken hugs, That dark object of desire). Directing will be Canadian filmmaker Christian Dugay (The art of war, Joan of Arc).