Maria Montessori – La nouvelle femme, the debut work by Léa Todorov with Leila Bekhti, Jasmine Trinca, Raffaele Esposito, is a French-Italian co-production that tells the story of the meeting between Lili d'Alengy, a famous Parisian courtesan, and Maria Montessori, a young doctor who is developing a learning method for children who were then defined as “deficient”. Both have a secret to hide: the former a daughter with a handicap, the latter a son born out of wedlock.
Filming took place in Rome and Paris. In the province of Rome, locations included Ariccia, where Palazzo Chigi lent its interiors for Lili's Roman residence, and Frascati, at the CPIA 7 "Anna Maria Lorenzetto" Institute.
Maria Montessori – La nouvelle femme, the debut work by Léa Todorov with Leila Bekhti, Jasmine Trinca, Raffaele Esposito, is a French-Italian co-production that tells the story of the meeting between Lili d'Alengy, a famous Parisian courtesan, and Maria Montessori, a young doctor who is developing a learning method for children who were then defined as “deficient”. Both have a secret to hide: the former a daughter with a handicap, the latter a son born out of wedlock.
Filming took place in Rome and Paris. In the province of Rome, locations included Ariccia, where Palazzo Chigi lent its interiors for Lili's Roman residence, and Frascati, at the CPIA 7 "Anna Maria Lorenzetto" Institute.
Geko Films, Tempesta
1900, Lili d'Alengy, a famous Parisian courtesan, has a shameful secret: her handicapped daughter Tina. Not wanting to take care of a child who was hindering her social career, she decides to leave Paris for Rome. She wants to meet Maria Montessori, a doctor who is developing a revolutionary learning method for children defined at the time as "deficient". She does not know that Maria is also hiding a secret: a child born out of wedlock. The two very different women help each other to conquer their place in the world of men; one to rethink her life and her family relationships, the other to make history.
