HOTEL PORTOFINO - DVD-SEASON ONE

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• Release Year: 2022
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The Hotel Portofino has only been open for a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its co-proprietor and moving spirit, Bella Ainsworth (Natascha McElhone): she’s short of staff and ready money: her guests, including the imperious Lady Latchmere (Anna Chancellor), are demanding and hard-to-please; and she’s being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, Signor Danioni (Pasquale Esposito), who threatens to drag her into the red-hot political cauldron of Mussolini’s Italy.; The Hotel demands all of Bells’a resources, energy, and focus, but she’s being pulled in other directions, as she tries to coax her wounded son, Lucien, and her widowed daughter, Alice, towards health and happiness in the traumatic aftermath of WWI. And Bella’s aristocratic but caddish husband, Cecil (Mark Umbers), is obsessed with arranging an advantageous marriage for Lucian to secure the family’s estate, and with finding the money to fund his dilettante lifestyle. How far will Cecil go to secure his wealth and status?
• Cast: Natascha McElhone, Oliver Dench, Louisa Binder, Carolina Gonnelli, Assad Zaman, Olivia Morris, Mark Umbers, Lucy Akhurst, Claude Scott-Mitchell, Elizabeth Carling, Anna Chancellor, Imogen King, Lily Frazer, Louis Healy, Petar Bencic, Pasquale Esposito, Adam James, Lorenzo Richelmy, Daniele Pecci, Rocco Fasano, Dominic Tighe, Bethan Cullinane, Maya Ramadan, Henry Tomlinson, Rakan Rushaidat, Glen McCready, Aleksandar Cvjetkovic, Igor Pecenjev, Amalia Culp, Adam Wimpenny, Matt Baker
• Director: Adam Wimpenny
• Runtime: 5:40
• Company: Eagle Eye Drama Limited, Beta Film, ITV Studios, BritBox
• Media Format: Series