Borgia (TV series)
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| Genre | Historical fiction Transgressive fiction |
| Created by | Tom Fontana |
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Cyril Morin (season 1) Eric Neveux (seasons 2–3) |
| Country of origin |
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| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 38 |
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| Cinematography | Ousama Rawi (season 1 and 2) James Welland (season 3) |
| Running time | 52 minutes |
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| Original release | 10 July 2011 – 27 October 2014 |
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Borgia (also known as Borgia: Faith and Fear) is a French-German-Czech-Italian historical drama television series created by Tom Fontana. The show recounts the Borgia family's rise to power and subsequent domination of the Papal States during the Renaissance.[1][2]
Borgia debuted in Italy via Sky Italia on 10 July 2011 and in North America via Netflix on 2 October 2011. It was since renewed for a second season, which premiered in France on Canal+ on 18 March 2013,[3] and on Netflix on 1 May 2013. A third and final season premiered in France on Canal+ on 15 September 2014[3] and on Netflix on 1 November 2014.[4] The series finale aired in France on Canal+ on 27 October 2014 as the 38th episode overall.
Production
The series is produced by Atlantique Productions, a subsidiary of Lagardère Entertainment, for French premium-pay TV Canal+ in association with EOS Entertainment, and was filmed in the Czech Republic and in Italy. Czech production was held by company Etic films.[2] International distribution is handled by Beta Film GmbH. Season 3 was filmed between 27 May 2013 and 27 January 2014.
International production
Even though the series is considered a French-German-Czech-Italian production, the whole setup is very international. The series creator, producer, and lead writer Tom Fontana, as well as the other writers including Sean Whitesell (House M.D., Cold Case, Homicide: Life on the Street),[5] Gina Gionfriddo (Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent)[6] and Larry Cohen (HBO's In Treatment, The Philanthropist), among several others are all American. Season 2 sees French writer Audrey Fouché join the writing team.[7]
The directors come from several different parts of Europe, Oliver Hirschbiegel (Diana, The Invasion starring Daniel Craig)[8] and Christoph Schrewe[9] are Germans, Dearbhla Walsh is Irish and best known for her work in UK (The Tudors, Shameless, BBC's Little Dorrit),[10] Metin Hüseyin is British (Inspector Lewis, Shameless, Merlin)[11] and Thomas Vincent[12] is French. The series follows a rather unusual format in that each director is in charge of directing at least two consecutive episodes before handing the series over to a new director.
The main character, Rodrigo Borgia, is portrayed by American actor John Doman[13] (The Wire). The rest of the cast hails from United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Czech Republic, but countries like Republic of Ireland, Denmark, and Spain and several others are also represented.
Cast and characters
Main cast
- John Doman as Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia / Pope Alexander VI (seasons 1–3)
- Mark Ryder as Cardinal Cesare Borgia (seasons 1–3)
- Stanley Weber as Juan Borgia (regular season 1, guest seasons 2-3)
- Isolda Dychauk as Lucrezia Borgia (seasons 1–3)
- Marta Gastini as Giulia Farnese (seasons 1–3)
- Diarmuid Noyes as Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (seasons 1–3)
- Art Malik as Francesc Gacet, Rodrigo Borgia's secretary (seasons 1–3)
- Assumpta Serna as Vannozza Cattanei (seasons 1–3)
- Christian McKay as Cardinal Ascanio Sforza (seasons 1–2)
- Scott Winters as Cardinal Raffaele Riario-Sansoni (seasons 1–3)
- Dejan Čukić as Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (at least seasons 1 and 2)
Recurring cast
- Victor Schefé as Johann Burchard
- Paul Brennen as Agapito Geraldini, Cesare's secretary
- Andrea Sawatzki as Adriana de Mila, Lucrezia's governess
- Michael Fitzgerald as Cardinal Oliviero Carafa
- Miroslav Táborský as Cardinal Giambattista Orsini
- Alejandro Albarracín as Alfonso di Calabria
- Sean Campion as Virginio Orsini
- Karel Dobrý as Cardinal Giovanni Colonna
- Andrew Hawley as Alfonso d'Este
- Predrag Bjelac as Cardinal Francesco Piccolomini
- Nicolás Belmonte as Shahzadeh Djem
- Adam Misík as Goffredo Borgia
- Richard Southgate as Marcantonio Colonna
- Marc Duret as Cardinal Guillaume Briçonnet
- Petr Vanek as Miguel de Corella
- Sebastian Urzendowsky as Cardinal Juan Borgia Lanzol
- Manuel Rubey as Giovanni Sforza
- John Bradley-West as Giovanni de' Medici
- Josef Jelínek as Cardinal Federico Sanseverino
- Tereza Vorísková as Fiametta Michaelis, Cesare's lover
- Josef Badalec as Cardinal Pedro Luis Borgia Lanzol
- Joseph Beattie as King Louis XII of France
- Paloma Bloyd as Princess Carlotta d'Aragona
- Rafael Cebrián as Rodrigo Borgia Lanzol, 'el pequeño'
- Matt Di Angelo as Cardinal Francesco Alidosi
- Peter Hosking (actor) as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Savelli
Guest starring
- Tom Wlaschiha as Philip of Habsburg[14]
- Vadim Glowna as Cardinal Jorge da Costa
- Mónica Lopera as Maria Enriquez de Luna
- Jiri Madl as Francesco Remolino d'Ilerda
- Eliska Krenková as Sancia of Squillace
- Scott Cleverdon as Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
- Davide Lipari as Sigismondo d'Este
- Alexandra Oppo as Isabella d'Este
- César Domboy as Guy de Laval
- Bohdan Petrovic Esek as Cardinal Francesco Borgia
- Michael Bilington as Orsino Orsini Migliorati
- Udo Kier as Pope Innocent VIII
- Dave Legeno as Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
- Jirí Ornest as Cardinal Ardicino della Porta
- Marek Vasut as Fabrizio Colonna
- Amber Rose Revah as Maacah bat Talmai, Juan's lover
- Simon Larvaron as King Charles VIII of France
- David Atrakchi as Yves D'Allegre, French captain
- Marco Cassini as Pietro Bembo
- Antoine Cholet as Cardinal Georges D'Amboise
- Thibaut Evrard as Niccolò Machiavelli
- Josef Karas as Domenico Doria, Papal Guard commander
- Valentina Cervi as Caterina Sforza
- Iain Glen as Girolamo Savonarola
- Richard McCabe as King Frederick IV of Naples
- Daisy Lewis as Maria Diaz Garlon, Cesare's lover
- Rudolf Martin as Franceschetto Cybo
- Lorenzo Richelmy as Sidonius Grimani
- Ellie Darcey-Alden as Felice della Rovere[15][16]
Episodes
Season 1 - Borgia: Faith and Fear (2011)
(March, 1492 – June, 1493)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy (Sky) | France (Canal+) | Austria (ORF 2) | Germany (ZDF) | Belgium (La Deux) | |||||
| 1 | 1 | 1492 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Tom Fontana | 10 July 2011 | 10 October 2011 | 13 October 2011 | 17 October 2011 | 6 May 2014 |
| 2 | 2 | Ondata di calore | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Kyle Bradstreet & Brant Englestein | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | A Sacred Vow | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Frank Pugliese & Brant Englestein | 9 September 2011 | 17 October 2011 | 14 October 2011 | 19 October 2011 | 13 May 2014 | |
| 4 | 4 | Wisdom of the Holy Spirit | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Brant Englestein & Frank Pugliese | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | The Bonds of Matrimony | Dearbhla Walsh | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Gina Gionfriddo | 16 September 2011 | 24 October 2011 | 19 October 2011 | 20 October 2011 | 20 May 2014 |
| 6 | 6 | Legitimacy | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Bradford Winters | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | Maneuvers | Metin Hüseyin | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Andrea Ciannavei | 23 September 2011 | 31 October 2011 | 21 October 2011 | 24 October 2011 | 27 May 2014 |
| 8 | 8 | Prelude to an Apocalypse | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Thomas Kelly | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | The Invasion of Rome | Christoph Schrewe | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Sean Whitesell | 30 September 2011 | 7 November 2011 | 24 October 2011 | 26 October 2011 | 3 June 2014 |
| 10 | 10 | Miracles | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: James Yoshimura | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | God's Monster | Metin Hüseyin | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Kevin Deiboldt | 7 October 2011 | 14 November 2011 | 25 October 2011 | 27 October 2011 | 10 June 2014 |
| 12 | 12 | The Serpent Rises | Tom Fontana | ||||||
Season 2 - Borgia: Rules of Love, Rules of War (2013)
(February, 1494 – September, 1494)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | ||||
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| Italy (Sky) | France (Canal+) | Austria (ORF 2) | Germany (ZDF) | Belgium (La Deux) | |||||
| 13 | 1 | The Time of Sweet Desires | Dearbhla Walsh | Tom Fontana | 13 September 2013 | 18 March 2013 | 25 September 2013 | 30 September 2013 | ... |
| 14 | 2 | Ash Wednesday | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Brant Englestein | ||||||
| 15 | 3 | Palm Sunday | Christoph Schrewe | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Bradford Winters | 20 September 2013 | 25 March 2013 | 27 September 2013 | 1 October 2013 | ... |
| 16 | 4 | Pax Vobiscum | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Andrea Ciannavei | ||||||
| 17 | 5 | Ascension | Metin Hüseyin | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Sean Whitesell | 27 September 2013 | 1 April 2013 | 1 October 2013 | 3 October 2013 | ... |
| 18 | 6 | Pentecost | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Larry J. Cohen | ||||||
| 19 | 7 | The Blessed Trinity | Thomas Vincent | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Brant Englestein | 4 October 2013 | 8 April 2013 | 2 October 2013 | 7 October 2013 | ... |
| 20 | 8 | A Morality Play | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Chris Albers | ||||||
| 21 | 9 | Transfiguration | Metin Hüseyin | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Susanna Styron | 11 October 2013 | 15 April 2013 | 3 October 2013 | 9 October 2013 | ... |
| 22 | 10 | The Assumption | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Frank Pugliese | ||||||
| 23 | 11 | The Seven Sorrows | Christoph Schrewe | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Audrey Fouché | 18 October 2013 | 22 April 2013 | 7 October 2013 | 13 October 2013 | ... |
| 24 | 12 | Who Is Like God? | Teleplay by: Tom Fontana | ||||||
Season 3 - Borgia: Triumph and Oblivion (2014)
(1495 – 1507)
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | ||||
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| Italy (Sky) | France (Canal+) | Austria (ORF 2) | Germany (ZDF) | Belgium (La Deux) | |||||
| 25 | 1 | 1495 | Christoph Schrewe | Story and Teleplay by: Tom Fontana & Brant Englestein | 3 November 2014 | 15 September 2014 | ... | ... | ... |
| 26 | 2 | 1496 | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Larry J. Cohen | ||||||
| 27 | 3 | 1497 | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Audrey Fouché | 10 November 2014 | 22 September 2014 | ... | ... | ... | |
| 28 | 4 | 1498 | Metin Hüseyin | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Andrea Ciannavei | |||||
| 29 | 5 | 1499 | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Susanna Styron | 17 November 2014 | 29 September 2014 | ... | ... | ... | |
| 30 | 6 | 1500 | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: William Bromell | ||||||
| 31 | 7 | 1501 | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Larry J. Cohen | 24 November 2014 | 6 October 2014 | ... | ... | ... |
| 32 | 8 | 1502 | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Frank Pugliese | ||||||
| 33 | 9 | 1503, Part One | Metin Hüseyin | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Chris Albers | 1 December 2014 | 13 October 2014 | ... | ... | ... |
| 34 | 10 | 1503, Part Two | Story by: Tom Fontana Teleplay by: Marie Roussin | ||||||
| 35 | 11 | 1504 | Story by: Brant Englestein | 8 December 2014 | 20 October 2014 | ... | ... | ... | |
| 36 | 12 | 1505 | Christoph Schrewe | Story and Teleplay by: Brant Englestein & Tom Fontana | |||||
| 37 | 13 | 1506 | Story and Teleplay by: Tom Fontana & Brant Englestein | 15 December 2014 | 27 October 2014 | ... | ... | ... | |
| 38 | 14 | 1507 | Story and Teleplay by: Tom Fontana | ||||||
References
- ↑ http://www.filmcommission.cz/filmography/project/p/247
- 1 2 http://www.totalfilm.cz/2012/03/borgia-dnes-vecer-na-barrandove/ Czech
- 1 2 Borgia - Une création originale Canal+
- ↑ New Titles on Netflix US (Nov. 1)
- ↑ Sean Whitesell at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Gina Gionfriddo at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ http://www.toutelatele.com/la-saison-2-de-borgia-en-mars-sur-canal-47044
- ↑ Oliver Hirschbiegel at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Christoph Schrewe at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Dearbhla Walsh at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Metin Hüseyin at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Thomas Vincent at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ John Doman at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ http://hamiltonhodell.co.uk/cv/client_tom-wlaschiha_id_100056.htm
- ↑ Ellie Darcey-Alden Appearing on Borgia and Ferrante d’Este WordPress.com. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ↑ A&J Management Twitter Status: 'can now announce that lovely @Elliedalden has been confirmed as Felice Dellarovere' Twitter. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
External links
- Borgia at the Internet Movie Database
- Lagardère Entertainment and Canal+ Press Release March 2009
- Official French website
- Article about Borgia on Austrian public TV website "ORF"