''Love and Vendetta'' () is an Italian television miniseries. The eight episode series aired on the

Canale 5 Canale 5 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel of Mediaset, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It was the first private television network to have national coverage in Italy in 1980. On 4 December 2012, Mediaset launched Canale 5 HD, a ...

network from 12 October through 23 November 2011, and featured

Anna Valle Anna Valle (born 19 June 1975) is an Italian actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Life and career Born in Rome, Anna Valle lived in Ladispoli up to thirteen years; after the separation of her parents she moved to Sicily, in Lentini, the c ...

Alessandro Preziosi Alessandro Preziosi (born 19 April 1973) is an Italian actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of th ...

, and Lorenzo Flaherty.(11 October 2011)
Alessandro Preziosi e Anna Valle nella fiction “Un amore e una vendetta”
''Lei Chic'' (in Italian) The series was first premiered at the 2011 Rome Fiction Fest at the

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.2011 Rome Fiction Fest Day 2
Gettyimages.com, Retrieved 6 May 2014 (photo of Valle attending premiere with caption in English)(12 October 2011)

''Yahoo Italy'' (from Funweek.it) (in Italian) The television premiere on Canale 5 was watched by 4.4 million viewers for a 17.72% share, winning its time slot, and continuing to perform well throughout its run.(13 October 2011)
ASCOLTI TV DI MERCOLEDI 12 OTTOBRE 2011: UN AMORE E UNA VENDETTA PARTE CON 4.4MLN (17.72%), CHI L’HA VISTO E LE IENE AL 15%. MASTERCHEF ALL’1.1%
Daviddemaggio.it (in Italian) (ratings information)(24 November 2011)
ASCOLTI TV DI MERCOLEDI 23 NOVEMBRE 2011: VINCE MILAN-BARCELLONA (6,5MLN – 21.86%), REGGE BENE L’ULTIMA DI UN AMORE E UNA VENDETTA (5,1MLN – 18.48%)
davidemaggio.it (in Italian) Based on the popular 2006 Argentine

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'' (which was optioned to a number of countries, including Italy), the storyline is loosely based on ''

The Count of Monte Cristo ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' () is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, and published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers'' (184 ...

'' by

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.(26 October 2011)
UN AMORE E UNA VENDETTA/ Lorenzo Flaherty: vi svelo alcuni segreti di Marco Damiani, nuovo e misterioso Conte di Montecristo… (esclusiva)
ilsussidiario.net (in Italian)

Cast

as Laura Castellani *

as Lorenzo Bermann/Andrea Damonte * Lorenzo Flaherty as Marco Damiani * Giovanni Guidelli as Paolo Bianchi *

Paolo Seganti Paolo Seganti (born 20 May 1964 in Rovereto, Trentino, Italy), is an Italian actor and model, known for playing Damian Grimaldi in the CBS television soap opera ''As the World Turns''. Career Seganti is known for his portrayal of Damian Grimald ...

as Luca Calligaris * Federico Costantini as Massimiliano Bianchi * Elisabetta Pellini as Olga Bernardi * Ray Lovelock as Alberto Castellani *

Simona Borioni Simona Borioni (born 7 January 1971) is an Italian theater and film actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Borioni studied singing and theater and followed acting workshops held by, among others, Susan Strasberg and Giorgio Albertazzi. She be ...

as Gabriella Bianchi * Mohamed Zouaoui as Hassan * Desirèe Noferini as Kadisha * Fiorenza Marchegiani as Betta * Giulia Elettra Gorietti as Monica * Benedetta Massola as Stefania *

Miloud Mourad Benamara Miloud Mourad Benamara (born 28 October 1977) is an Algerian-born Italian actor. Early life Benamara is originally from Oran; he studied drama in Algeria before moving to Italy. Career In Italy, Benamara has frequently appeared in character act ...

as Arab man

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Love and Vendetta 2011 Italian television series debuts 2010s Italian drama television series 2011 Italian television series endings Canale 5 original programming