'Luna Nera' Is About to Be Your Next Italian Netflix Obsession
By Pippa RagaFeb. 3 2020, Updated 6:18 p.m. ET
Netflix's push to realize world audiences continues, and the newest is an Italian collection about love, future... and witches!
Luna Nera, which literally translates to "black moon," premiered on Jan. 31, transporting audiences to medieval Italy the place a gaggle of girls have simply been accused of practicing witchcraft.
So, what exactly is Luna Nera about? Who plays younger Ade and her cohort of witches? Read on to learn about the plot, cast, and a possible Season 2.
What is 'Luna Nera' about?
The first episode of Luna Nera introduces viewers to Ade, a young midwife working with her grandmother to lend a hand a noblewoman give start.
However, Ade will get a premonition that something's incorrect with the baby while the lady continues to be in labor.
When the noblewoman ends up giving beginning to a stillborn, she ends up accusing Ade and her grandmother of casting a spell that harmed her child.
Ade's grandmother tells Ade to escape the village together with her little sibling Valente, and find a group of women in the woods who can keep them protected. When Ade asks her grandmother if her circle of relatives are witches, the old girl cryptically answers, "That's what they call them. But they're much more than that."
Meanwhile, a young man named Pietro returns house from Rome. Pietro is an informed physician who believes in not anything but science and tries to turn the remainder of the the city that they're incorrect of their witch-hunting tactics.
Unfortunately for Pietro, he's additionally the son of the noblewoman who misplaced her child in childbirth, and his father is the chief of the the city's witch-hunting vigilantes.
To make matters more sophisticated, after all, Pietro additionally occurs to fall in love with Ade, who makes him start to query his steadfast beliefs.
Who's in the cast of 'Luna Nera'?
The extensive forged of Luna Nera is headed up by means of Antonia "Nina" Fotaras who performs Ade, the young lady who finds out that she’s a witch. Her love interest, the smart physician Pietro, is played via Giorgio Belli. Giada Gagliardi plays Ade’s little sibling Valente, who’s in the long run published as the chosen one.
Tebe, the head of the secret wooden’s witching society is played by Manuela Mandracchia and she’s joined by Adalgisa Manfrida as Persepolis, Lucrezia Guidone as Leptis, Federica Fracassi as Janara.
Rounding out the solid is Roberto de Francesco as Marzio Oreggi, the handiest male persona who can also perform magic but does so most effective in secret, which permits him to climb to a high place inside the church. Oreggi may or would possibly not also be Ade’s father…? We aren’t certain about this yet, but the Season 1 finale indubitably dropped some hints that this could be the case.
Notably, Luna Nera may be directed by an all-women trio of Francesca Comencini, Susanna Nicchiarelli and Paola Randi.
Will there be a Season 2 of 'Luna Nera'?
So some distance, there’s been no reliable announcement about Netflix freeing Season 2 of Luna Nera. However, the show is in keeping with the novel Luna Nera: Le Città Perdute (Black Moon: The Lost Cities), the first quantity of a young grownup trilogy that used to be printed in October 2019.
The Netflix series was green-lit before the first e-book even hit bookstores and given that there are two extra books to be released, it kind of feels reasonably most probably that viewers can be expecting extra seasons of this show.
Season 1 of Luna Nera is now streaming on Netflix.
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