The Good Mothers, a Disney+ mafia drama, won the inaugural Berlinale Series Award in Berlin
The six-part series, from House Productions and Italy’s Wildside, tells the true story of three women who worked to take down the Mafia from the inside.
Italian drama on Disney+ At the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, The Good Mothers won the first Berlinale Series prize for best TV drama. The joint Italian-U.K. production recounts the real-life exploits of three women who joined forces with a female prosecutor to overthrow the infamous Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
The Good Mothers is a film produced by House Productions in the UK and Wildside in Italy, a Fremantle company, and is based on Alex Perry’s book of the same name. Elisa Amoroso (Fidelity) and Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots, Brideshead Revisited) shared the directing duties after Stephen Butchard adapted the book.
As part of the Berlinale’s sidebar for high-end TV drama, the first two episodes of the six-part series were shown.
Good Mothers “captured us with its multi-layered characters that have been treated with care and allowed to evolve before our very eyes,” according to the first-ever Berlinale Series Award Jury, which was composed of Danish screenwriter Mette Heeno, former Yes Studios boss Danna Stern, Moonlight and The Eddy actor André Holland, and former Yes Studios boss Danna Stern.
Our hearts skipped a beat as we watched the series’ talented cast present a world that had been painstakingly recreated by its meticulous creators.
The Viaplay series Arkitekten (The Architect), a dark satire about a near-future Copenhagen from screenwriting duo Nora Landsrd and Kristian, received a special mention from the jury.