Country of origin Italy No. of seasons 1 Production company(s) RAI First episode date 16 November 1954 Network Rai 1 Genre Historical drama Adapted from Doctor Antonio | Original language(s) Italian No. of episodes 4 episodes Original network Programma Nazionale Final episode date 7 December 1954 Number of seasons 1 Language Italian | |
Doctor Antonio (Italian:Il dottor Antonio) is a 1954 Italian television series, based on the 1855 novel of the same title by Giovanni Ruffini. It aired in four parts on RAI, the state broadcaster that had launched the same year. It was the first literary adaptation to be broadcast on Italian television.
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In the mid-nineteenth century a patriot fighting for Italian unification meets and falls in love with an English aristocrat while in exile. Eventually he decides to leave her and return to fight and die for his country.
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