The Trial (Italian: Il processo) is an Italian television mini-series, composed of 8 episodes, created by Alessandro Fabbri, in collaboration with Laura Colella and Enrico Audenino, and directed by Stefano Lodovichi.

It originally aired in Italy in November 2019 and was released on Netflix on 10 April 2020.

Synopsis

The protagonist is a successful prosecutor, Elena Guerra, who is about to take a leave of absence from her public prosecutor job in Mantua, Italy, to go to New York where her husband has accepted a job. This plan is upended when she is assigned a delicate case where a very wealthy local woman Linda Monaco is accused of brutally murdering Angelica Petroni, a 17 year old found dead in a canal. Linda is defended by the noted and very ambitious criminal defense lawyer Ruggero Barone.

Cast

• Vittoria Puccini as Elena Guerra
• Francesco Scianna as Ruggero Barone
• Margherita Caviezel as Angelica Petronio
• Camilla Filippi as Linda Monaco
• Michele Morrone as Claudio Cavalleria
• Maurizio Lastrico as Giovanni Malaguti
• Simone Colombari as Giacomo Andreoli
• Alessandro Averone as Stefano Lanzoni
• Pia Lanciotti as Fabrizia Furlan
• Tommaso Ragno as Gabriele Monaco
• Euridice Axen as Mara Raimondi
• Roberto Herlitzka as Giancarlo Guerra

Production

The series was co-produced by Lucky Red and RTI.

Filming

The series was filmed in the city of Mantua. Locations include: Palazzo Te, Piazza Sordello, Palazzo d Arco, Palazzo Beccaguti, Palazzo Cavriani, Palazzo Andreani and the lakes of Mantua, as well as some scenes in Rome.

Reception

Rated a 9 of 10 by Rotten Tomatoes with viewer comments that the acting is very good, the Mantua story s setting in north central Italy interesting, but the dialog, dubbed in English, at times doesn t correlate well with the video.

Year	2019
ReleaseDate	2020-04-10
Plot	A group of characters is implicated in the murder of Angelica. They all walk on a razor’s edge searching for the truth, waiting for a verdict, which will establish, in a way or another, a new course for their lives.
Stars	Vittoria Puccini, Francesco Scianna, Camilla Filippi
Series Produced by	Nicolò Forte,Valentina Piersanti,Tommaso Arrighi,Mattia Guerra,Stefano Massenzi,Andrea Occhipinti,Serena Sostegni
Series Music by	Giorgio Giampà
Series Cinematography by	Benjamin Maier
Series Film Editing by	Roberto Di Tanna
Series Casting By	Stefania Valestro
Series Production Design by	Enrico Serafini
Series Set Decoration by	Cristiana Possenti
Series Costume Design by	Marina Campanale
Series Makeup Department	Augusta De Angelis,Daniela Scumaci
Series Production Management	Simona Chiocca,Giovanni Meglio
Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director	Giulia Alibrandi,Andrea Martino de Carles,Sebastiano Facco,Simone Rosso,Carlo Tozzi,Paolo De Lucia
Series Art Department	David Natale,Davide De Cubellis,Margherita De Stefani
Series Sound Department	Paolo Amici,Federico Amodio,Italo Cameracanna,Cristiano Ciccone,Leonardo Giambi,Giuliano Marcaccini,Manuele Pepe,Iacopo Pineschi,Daniele Quadroli,David Quadroli,Fabrizio Quadroli,Matteo Lugara,Paolo Testa
Series Visual Effects by	Fabio Cattaneo,Luca D Annibale,Monica Galantucci,Marco Prosperi,Micaela Tempesta
Series Stunts	Duke Nwamerue,Maria Gnecchi
Series Camera and Electrical Department	Daniele Carbonaro,Alessio Cianciuolo,Lorenzo Colucci,Gabrio Contino,Maila Iacovelli,Andrea Issich,Arianna Lanzuisi,Marco Palmieri,Daniele Proietti,Teo Torresi,Sergio Tripodi,Thomas Urbinelli,Alessandro Veridiani,Fabio Zayed,Ernesto Busillo,Stefano Paradiso,Luca Papi,Gianni Chiarini
Series Casting Department	Flavia Poerio
Series Costume and Wardrobe Department	Laura Antonelli,Eleonora Di Marco
Series Editorial Department	Ilenia Galasso,Angelo Santini,Paolo Verrucci
Series Location Management	Erin Arreola
Series Music Department	Damiano Antinori,Ginevra Nervi,Davide Settembrino,Paola Vanoni
Series Script and Continuity Department	Silvana Decarli,Irene Salvan
Series Additional Crew	Brett Calo,Guillaume Dabinpons,Alessio Rossi,Djamel Bennecib,Marco Landolfi
Genres	Crime, Thriller
Companies	Lucky Red, R.T.I.
Countries	Italy
Languages	Italian
ContentRating	TV-MA
ImDbRating	7.2
ImDbRatingVotes	3288
Keywords	prosecutor,courtroom drama,murder,italian judicial system,female lead