Arte is now putting online on its platform “Anna”, a mini-series created by Niccolò Ammaniti set in a post-apocalyptic present where only the children have survived.
What is it about ?
In a post-apocalyptic present, a stubborn young girl sets out to find her kidnapped little brother. Through charred fields, dark forests, ruins of shopping malls and abandoned towns, she will have to fight day after day alongside a community of survivors on a desolate island where nature has reclaimed its rights.
She will be guided in her quest by the instruction book left to her by her mother. But as the days go by, she will understand that it is now impossible to live according to the rules of the past: she has to build new ones.
Anna’s season 1 is available this Friday, September 10 on Arte.tv. It will be broadcast on November 4 and 11 on Arte.
A series closer to our reality
What would happen to our civilization if a deadly epidemic were to kill all adults? Here is the precept of Anna, a mini-series in 6 episodes straight from Italy which takes us into a post-apocalyptic present in which only children who have not yet reached puberty are still alive. After this stage, they die, like their parents before them …
It is in this world that evolves Anna (camped by the young Giulia Dragotto who obtains her first role here), an obstinate young girl who will cross a desolate Sicily where nature has reclaimed its rights in order to find her little brother, victim of a kidnapping.
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Crying realism, particularly in her treatment of the pandemic, Anna is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, creator of the series, but also of the excellent Il Miracolo. Published in 2015, more than 4 years before the start of the pandemic, the book tells us with chilling precision the beginnings of a deadly epidemic which eradicated part of the population.
With her sumptuous sets, her elaborate shots and her promising young actors, Anna, which will be broadcast in November on Arte, is worth a detour.
