Un medico in famiglia
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Un medico in famiglia |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Year (s) | since 1998 |
| Production company |
Rai Fiction and Publispei |
| length | about 60 minutes |
| Episodes | 260 in 10 seasons |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly |
| genre | Comedy TV show |
| music | Andrea Guerra |
| First broadcast | Rai 1 |
| occupation | |
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Lino Banfi : Libero Martini | |
Un medico in famiglia is an Italian comedy - series that aired in so far ten seasons since 1998th It is one of the most successful series in Italy.
description
Un medico in famiglia tells the story of the Martini family, who have to overcome various difficulties in terms of family, friendship and love with typical Italian humor. It's all about the widowed doctor-father of the family, his father, the five children, the housekeeper, friends of all ages and the staff at Poggio Fiorito's private clinic .
The series, adapted from the originally Spanish TV series Médico de familia , has been broadcast on Rai 1 , the Italian state television, at regular intervals in eight seasons since December 6, 1998 . The first season ran through May 30, 1999 in 52 episodes; all other seasons consist of 26 episodes. Since 2007 the series has been re-produced every two years. All eight seasons consist of 234 episodes, with a length of 50 to 60 minutes. At the beginning of the seventh season, Un medico in famiglia will be produced in 16: 9 widescreen format , and from the eighth season also in HDTV .
The programs are broadcast during the season broadcast at prime time. The eighth season has been running on Rai 1 since March 3, 2013.
The musical themes were created by the well-known Italian film composer Andrea Guerra .
Based on this series, Un medico in famiglia has also been available as an animated series since 2003 .
occupation
- Libero Martini
- interpreted by Lino Banfi , is the grandfather and - especially during the absence of his son Lele for several seasons - the head of the family. He worked as a railroad worker all his life and is known for his witty inserts. Widowed since the first episode, he constantly dreams of his deceased wife, but also falls in love a few times; first in Marité, then in Antoinette and finally in Enrica, his son's mother-in-law, whom he married at the end of the sixth season. His motto is: "Una parola è troppa e due sono poche" (in German roughly: "One word is too much and two are little"). In the sixth season he appears less often due to his move to Apulia .
- Gabriele "Lele" Martini
- interpreted by Giulio Scarpati , is a doctor and the father of the family. He is mainly there during the first two seasons and then disappears almost completely from the scene for several seasons. After his guest appearance in the first episode of the third season and the last episode of the fourth season, he finally returns to the series for the sixth season. He is the son of Libero Martini and father of Maria, Ciccio and Annuccia and the twins Libero jun. (also called Bobò) and Elena. Constantly busy with his medical work and always on cloud nine, he cares wholeheartedly about his children's problems, but does not necessarily notice them when they really have them. At the beginning of the series, Lele is a widower, who two years ago lost his first wife, Elena ( Beatrice Bocci ), to her death and is now on her own with his father, raising three children. His life seems to take a turn when he falls in love with Irene ( Edi Angelillo ). But the relationship between the two is shaken several times until it breaks completely. Lele discovers his love for his sister-in-law Alice and confesses his love to her. They get married and have children together: the twins Libero (also called Bobò) and Elena. After starting out together in Australia , where he worked as a doctor, he became a lecturer at the Sorbonne in Paris . After separating from Alice in season six, he returns with the twins to his family in Italy for a research semester.
- Alice Solari, cut Martini
- interpreted by Claudia Pandolfi , protagonist of the first and second seasons. She is the sister of Elena, Lele's first wife to die. She has loved Lele for a long time and will later become his second wife. The two give birth to twins - Libero (called Bobò) and Elena. After working as the head of the radio station Radiotua, she went to Australia with Lele. In the sixth season, the split between Alice and Lele is known.
- Emilio Villari
- interpreted by David Sebasti , protagonist of the fifth season. He is a young doctor who rented a room at Lele Martini's home. Initially unpopular with grandfather, he manages to get into harmony with the Martini family. First engaged to Alba, the daughter of his powerful employer Gualtiero, he falls in love with his Indian colleague Sarita, with whom he works in Poggio Fiorito's private clinic. Emilio carries out his work extremely conscientiously and is sometimes strict with his colleagues.
- Sarita Dahvi
- interpreted by Shivani Ghai , plays the role of a doctor in the fifth season. She moved to Rome with her two brothers and her grandfather, who opened a restaurant there. She finds a job at Poggio Fiorito's clinic and also helps her grandfather run his restaurant. She meets Emilio even before they work together. Over time, falls in love with him, even though she knows he's engaged. When Emilio leaves his fiancée, Alba, Sarita has to deal with the traditionalist views of her grandfather.
- Guido Zanin †
- interpreted by Pietro Sermonti , plays in the third, fourth and sixth seasons of the series. He is a young doctor and is looking for accommodation at the beginning of the third season. He went to the university bulletin board and met Maria ( Margot Sikabonyi ) and her friend Rebby. Thanks to the informality of Maria's friend, he learns that a room is available in the Martini family's house. He rents the room that Lele previously lived in. Guido then finds a job in the same clinic where Lele worked. Over the course of the series, he has an affair with Maria. The two later marry and have a daughter, Paola Enrica Ave (Palù). In the sixth season, Guido cheats on his wife, whereupon Maria separates from him, which affects the entire Martini family deeply. After various attempts by the whole family to bring the two back together, Maria forgives her husband and is reconciled again.
- Maria Zanin, b. Martini
- (in Italian Maria Martini, ved. Zanin ) interpreted by Margot Sikabonyi , after marrying Guido Zanin, plays in all six episodes. She is Lele's first daughter. In the first season she is in the pubescent phase and is a strong and determined youngster who goes through school with devotion, driven by the constant dream of becoming a doctor in her father's footsteps. Her relationship with her brother Ciccio is full of conflict, while she is on friendly terms with her sister Annuccia as a constant accomplice. She falls in love with Guido, whom she marries after some adversity. At the beginning of the fifth season she returns from Africa, where she and Guido supported a medical humanitarian aid organization. On the black continent, she had a profound, terrible experience that she never spoke about to anyone, not even her husband Guido. She had to choose which of two children she would save. Determined not to pursue the study of medicine any further, she went through a period of maturation. Thanks to her friendship with Sarita, she finally decides to become a doctor, to the delight of the whole family, especially her grandfather Libero. In the sixth season she gives birth to her first child, Paola Enrica Ave (Palù).
- Concetta "Cettina" Torello, b. Gargiulo
- (in Italian Concetta "Cettina" Gargiulo in Torello ), interpreted by Lunetta Savino , after her marriage to Augusto Torello, plays from the first to the fifth season and appears as a guest star in the sixth season. She is the housekeeper at Martini and not only does her job, but is also becoming more and more of a family member. Cettina is proud of her southern Italian roots and shows this on many occasions. In the third season she meets Augusto Torello ( Francesco Salvi ), who falls in love with her. The two get engaged and split up for a short time due to a misunderstanding. After all misunderstandings have been cleared up, Cettina and Augusto get married in the final episode of the third season. In the last episode of the fourth season she finds out that she is pregnant and gives birth to little Eros in the years between the fourth and fifth season. In the fifth season, she experiences a marriage crisis with Augusto. In the sixth season, in which she only appears as a guest, an accident happens at the beginning of the season in which she is wrongly declared dead. Only at the end of the sixth season does it emerge that Cettina is still alive, but has apparently suffered a memory loss. With the help of the Martini family, she remembers everything and is reunited with her husband and son.
- Augusto Torello
- interpreted by Francesco Salvi , plays in the third, fourth and fifth seasons. He heads one of the most important companies in the funeral industry and for this reason is not given much attention by Cettina. He falls madly in love with her, but it takes time for Cettina to return his love. He's a bit crazy and clumsy, and after meeting Cettina, he also forms a solid bond with the Martini family, albeit not in a flashy way. The two get married at the end of the third season and he always remains loyal to her, even when she leaves him and has a love affair with Kabir, which plunges him into deep despair. When Cettina goes missing in an accident at the beginning of the sixth season, he moves to Brescia with his son Eros .
- Francesco "Ciccio" Martini
- interpreted by Michael Cadeddu , plays in all six seasons. He is the second son of Lele. From an early age, Ciccio loves to play pranks on his family and friends. But as he grows up he matures more and more and falls in love with Miranda, the daughter of Andrea, the friend of his aunt Nilde. In the last episode of the fourth season, Miranda announces her pregnancy, which later turns out to be a false alarm. In the fifth season he is a student at the Faculty of Agriculture. In the sixth season, Ciccio and Miranda decide to get married. On the day of the wedding, Miranda left him in front of the invited guests in the church. While processing Miranda's loss, he falls in love with Tresy, a young racing rider at the stud where he works. In the meantime, Miranda thinks about it and tries to win Ciccio back. Initially torn, Ciccio eventually marries Tresy in the final episode of the sixth season.
- Annuccia Martini
- interpreted by Eleonora Cadeddu , plays in all six seasons. As the third child of the martinis, she is always an intelligent, inventive and loving girl. She has an intimate relationship with her brother Ciccio, but especially with her older sister Maria. She is also the first in the family to notice that a love is developing between Maria and Guido. In the fifth season, Annuccia will officially become a young lady. In the sixth season she has to deal with the problems of an adolescent four-year-old, which mainly affects her relationship with her father.
- Alberto Foschi
- interpreted by Manuele Labate , plays from the first to the fifth season. He is the cousin of Maria, Ciccio and Annuccia, because he is the son of Lele's sister Nilde. He was born a year before Maria, the grandfather of Libero's first grandson. Alberto never felt like studying and lied to his family about it. Because of this, his girlfriend Gemma leaves him, who later falls in love with his best friend Adriano. In the course of time his talent for the world of communication is revealed and he finds a job at the radio station Radiotua, then at Teletua. In the fifth season, his father comes to visit, who tells him that he has cancer and will die that same year. At the end of the fifth season and at the beginning of the sixth season, he marries Rebby and goes to Milan with her.
- Enrica Martini, b. Morelli, married Solari
- (in Italian Enrica Morelli in Martini, divorziata Solari ) interpreted by Milena Vukotic , after marrying Libero Martini, plays in all six seasons. She is the grandmother of the martinis. She is a noble woman, always elegantly dressed and loves all of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. During all episodes, she secretly likes Grandfather Libero Martini. Their high-ranking acquaintances (lawyer Ulmi, Professor Morbelli, Livia and Mariapia etc.) are often the cause of a joke because of the huge difference between them and their humble grandfather Libero. In the third season, she falls into depression when she realizes that she has gotten old. Thanks to Libero, she finds a way out of the crisis. In the sixth season, the two finally get married. The newborn daughter of her new granddaughter by marriage, Maria, inherits her first name as part of her name: " Paola Enrica Ave ".
- Nicola Solari
- interpreted by Riccardo Garrone , plays in the first season and as a guest star in some episodes of the fourth season. In the first season of the series, he is the husband of grandmother Enrica Morelli. The two later split up when she reveals his affair with a young lady. He is the father of Alice and Elena and has to file for bankruptcy with his company and close the business in season four.
- "Rebby" (Rebecca)
- interpreted by Carlotta Aggravi , plays in the first five seasons of the series. She is Maria's best friend and is always undecided about her future and has been working for her father's company since the fourth season. Since the first season she has been in love with Alberto, Maria's cousin, to whom she becomes engaged at the end of the fifth season. In the sixth season they move to Milan together .
- Ave Maria Battiston
- interpreted by Emanuela Grimalda , plays in the sixth season. She is the mother of Guido and abandoned him in the hospital shortly after his birth. She returns home but feels little affection from her son, who is offended by her actions. The situation improves over time and they get closer. The newborn daughter of her son Guido inherits her first name as part of her name: Paola Enrica "Ave".
Seasons
| Seasons | Episodes | Period | Image format |
|---|---|---|---|
| season 1 | 52 | 1998 - 1999 | 4: 3 |
| season 2 | 26th | 2000 | 4: 3 |
| season 3 | 26th | 2003 | 4: 3 |
| Season 4 | 26th | 2004 | 4: 3 |
| Season 5 | 26th | 2007 | 4: 3 |
| Season 6 | 26th | 2009 | 5: 3 |
| Season 7 | 26th | 2011 | 16: 9 |
| Season 8 | 26th | 2013 | 16: 9 |
| Season 9 | 26th | 2014 | 16: 9 |
| Season 10 | 26th | 2016 | 16: 9 |