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Country of origin Italy No. of seasons 10 Running time 22-25 min (episodes) Final episode date 2008 Network Canale 5 Language Italian | 6/10 IMDb Original language(s) Italian No. of episodes 2130 First episode date 1999 Number of episodes 2,130 Number of seasons 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Cristiana Farina and Lorenzo Favella Similar CentoVetrine, Incantesimo, Questa è la mia terra, Distretto di Polizia, Tuscan Passion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vivere ("Living") was an Italian soap opera created by Cristiana Farina and Lorenzo Favella. It was broadcast from 1999 to 2008 on Canale 5, afterwards Rete 4, and in replica on La 5.
Vivere was also first fully Italian soap opera about hope, desire and dreams of four families. The series about four families which lives in Como, a rich, provincial town in Northern Italy. The protagonists of the story is Bonelli's, a family of restaurators from lower-middle class, Moretti's, whose head of the family a rich businessman and his handsome son a journalist, and a family of successful doctors De Carolis – Falcon. Plot of the series takes place in and around the ancient villas, hotels, restaurants, clinics and gyms. In this environment erupt private and public affairs whose consequences tension and intrigue such as arranged marriages, illicit love affairs, terrifying secrets and powerful games.
Guided by emotions, passions and dreams characters follow their heart, desires and instincts that are connected or separated. Such relationships built bittersweet picture of life in the Italian suburb, which is actually similar to the everyday life of each of us.
In Portugal in 2002, the television channel SIC, in collaboration with Endemol, was realised the remake of the soap opera, with the title Fúria de Viver.
It has been aired in Slovenia.
In Croatia, it was broadcast from May to August 2003 (only 60 episodes from Season 1) and reprised from July to late October 2006 (approx. 85 episodes).