Lidia Poët was the first woman in Italy to practice as a lawyer. A contemporary character, nonconformist, a woman who made the history of feminism and is still too little known. Lidia Poët is the protagonist of the series available on Netflix. The first of the six episodes was previewed to the press, in the presence of the director, cast, screenwriters, at the Cinema Massimo Turin. It was filmed in the Piedmontese capital in a nineteenth-century setting, with period costumes.
Lidia Poet
“Very little is known about this woman. We worked with imagination, empathy, starting from little information. I tried to give it as many nuances as possible, to also make it fragile, fallible,” he explains Matilda Angelis who in the series is Lidia Poët. Next to her Eduardo Scarpetta, as the journalist Jacopo Barberis, Pier Luigi Pasino who is Enrico Poët, brother of Lidia, Sara Lazzaro and Sinéad Thornhill, respectively Teresa Barberis, Enrico's wife, and Marianna Poët, their daughter. Dario Aita plays Andrea Caracciolo. “This series is a popular product, which talks about current issues, Gender equality is still a distant goal.
Lidia is a contemporary character who is the bearer of a complex theme” explains the director Matteo Rovere, assisted in the direction by Letizia Lamartire. the series, greenland production, is written by Guido Iuculano, Davide Orsini, Elisa Dondi, Daniela Gambaro and Paolo Piccirillo. Set in Turin at the end of the XNUMXth century, it takes its cue from the sentence of the Turin Court of Appeal which declares Lidia Poët's registration in the register of lawyers illegitimate, thus preventing her from practicing the profession just because she is a woman. Penniless but full of pride, Lidia finds a job in her brother Enrico's law firm, while she prepares the appeal to overturn the Court's conclusions. The road to equal opportunities it has been long and tortuous and the first lawyer in Italy has traced its direction with firmness and determination.
