La Storia (TV series)

A half-Jewish single mother deals with poverty and persecution in 1940s Rome.^[1]

• 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 [it] as Mrs. Di Segni
• Enzo Casertano [it] as Tommaso Marrocco
• Lukas Zumbrock [de] as Günther, a German soldier
• Flora Gigliosetto as Carulì
• Ludovica Ciaschetti as Mariolina

Principal photography began in June 2022.^[2] The series was largely shot in Rome.^[3] Filming also briefly took place in Naples and Anagni.^[4][5]

The first two episodes of the series premiered at the 18th Rome Film Festival on 20 October 2023. They aired on Rai 1 two months later, on 8 January 2024, and were watched by 4.5 million viewers.^[6]

On 20 October 2023, the series was acquired by NRK for Norway, Yle for Finland, SVT for Sweden, DR for Denmark, and RÚV for Iceland.^[3] On 23 October 2024, the series was acquired by MHz Choice for the United States and Canada, and by Yes and Hot for Israel.^[7]

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."^[8]