If it is up to Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, in the sweet and determined interpretation of Cristiana Capotondi, to open Rai Fiction on Rai1 on January 3, 2021, there are many female figures, real or inspired by bestselling stories, who will keep company to the public of Viale Mazzini, in a season that will also see great returns, from Montalbano and Schiavone, and highly anticipated novelties like Leonardo.
From the novels of Gabriella Genisi here is 'Lolita Lobosco', a modern feminine declination of the Italian crime story hybridized with the pink comedy: Luisa Ranieri is the deputy chief of the police station in Bari, in a world stubbornly ruled by males.
In the heart of Naples, the Rione Sanità brings his charge of empathy and enthusiasm to the clinic where he works as a social worker 'Mina Settembre', alias Serena Rossi in the series, based on the novels of Maurizio De Giovanni, which in a mix of comedy and yellow stages characters rich in humanity and lights and shadows of our society.
Vittoria Puccini is instead the protagonist of the action-thriller 'The fugitive' which, with the tones of noir, tells of a heroine on the run to defend herself from the accusation of having killed her husband and from the shadows of the past.
To Carolina Crescentini, in the fiction 'The girl who did not want to sing', the task of retracing Nada's childhood and beginnings starting from a small town in the Livorno area and the farming world of the early 1960s.
2021 will also see the return of the most beloved protagonists, above all the 'Commissario Montalbano', born from the pen of Andrea Camilleri and interpreted by Luca Zingaretti, with 'The Catalanotti method'.
In the new episodes of 'May God help us 6' the convent of the Angels moves to Assisi, the city where Sister Angela - Elena Sofia Ricci - grew up and found her vocation.
Here the nun will find herself dealing with a secret, a hidden wound, but still open in her soul.
Also awaited the second season of the 'Compagnia del cigno' with Anna Valle and the seven young musicians led by Alessio Boni grappling with the challenges of maturity.
And on Rai2 the investigations of the incorrect and undisciplined deputy commissioner Rocco Schiavone, alias Marco Giallini, from the novels of Antonio Manzini return.
Among the new protagonists stands out 'Leonardo', a mega international co-production with Aidan Turner, Matilda De Angelis and Freddie Highmore, which reveals the mystery of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic characters in history 500 years after his death.
Also arrives 'Il commissario Ricciardi', the shady detective with an unconfessable secret who investigates Naples in the 1930s, again by de Giovanni and played by Lino Guanciale.
100 years after his birth, Eduardo Scarpetta plays the role of Renato Carosone in 'Carosello Carosone': the story of his rise to the top of the international charts, of an adventure full of rhythm in the name of music, fun and experimentation.
The 'Hearts' series with Daniele Pecci, Matteo Martari, Pilar Fogliati is inspired by a golden age of medicine in Italy and tells the human and professional challenges of a group of doctors as brilliant as they are ambitious in a cutting-edge cardiology department of the Molinette hospital in Turin.
And again 'The promise' with Greta Scarano, Simone Liberati and Claudia Pandolfi spans twelve years of a couple's life to discover how love has turned into hate and the secret is hidden at the origins of their story.
Among the docu-fictions, 'This is a man', dedicated to Primo Levi and interpreted by Thomas Trabacchi, deserves a mention: in the foreground the life of the Piedmontese writer who told the horror of the concentration camps and who was able to raise his story to symbol of the greatest collective tragedy of the twentieth century.
The doors of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome open once again to the cameras to tell stories of life and hope of the little patients: the docufiction 'Doctors in the ward' is back on Rai3 with Federica Sciarelli as narrator.
Finally, on RaiPlay comes 'Nudes', an anthology of stories to show what dramatic consequences it can have to expose or see one's naked body exposed in the online dimension.
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