Cuori (All Heart) is inspired by the Italian doctors who pioneered cardiac surgery in the 1960s. The series chronicles the personal and professional challenges of a group of brilliant and ambitious doctors in the cutting-edge cardiology department at Turin's Molinette Hospital.
Encompassing power struggles, parties, dances, late-night emergencies and open-heart surgeries, love triangles and rekindled, perhaps lost, friendships, the protagonists are always dealing with that marvellous organ called the heart.
The Rai series, produced by Aurora TV and directed by Riccardo Donna, stars Daniele Pecci, Matteo Martari, and Pilar Fogliati, brilliant doctors who, both at work and in their private lives, are always dealing with that marvellous organ: the heart.
The series All Heart was inspired by a golden age of medicine in Italy and recounts the personal and professional challenges of a group of brilliant and ambitious doctors in a cutting-edge cardiology department at Turin's Molinette Hospital. Daniele Pecci, Matteo Martari, and Pilar Fogliati play doctors united by a great dream: to be the first in the world to perform a heart transplant, thus revolutionizing medicine.
The key location of the series is Turin's Molinette Hospital, whose interiors were built on the Lumiq sound stages on corso Lombardia.
The stories unfold in various settings, including Dora Docks, Valentino castle and park, and, within the park, the Società Canottieri Armida.
Other locations included the Carignano Theatre, the Subalpina gallery, cinema Romano, the Anatomy Department of the University of Turin, and the Monte dei Cappuccini.
Locations in the province included the villaggio Leumann of Collegno and near the Devil's bridge in Lanzo Torinese.
The second season of All Heart starts in July 1968. Delia and Alberto's dream of love has been dashed: Delia hasn’t been able to reveal her feelings for Alberto to Cesare, while Alberto has chosen to stay close to Karen (Romina Colbasso), who has made him a father. Separated again, the lovers try to keep their distance, at least until fate decides to break down their defences.
Turin and the Molinette are once again the backdrop for the doctors’ romantic and professional adventures, torn between careers and private lives.
Locations included: Borgo Cornalese di Villastellone, Valentino park and Società Canottieri Armida, the University of Turin's Anatomy Department, Cavour garden, Teatro Regio, and Retirement Home for the Elderly.
Delia Brunello and Alberto Ferraris (Pilar Fogliati and Matteo Martari), the ambitious doctors of the cardiology department at Turin's Molinette Hospital, are involved in new professional challenges and important research. Season 3 opens five years after the second, in 1974, a time marked by important medical breakthroughs such as the birth of intensive care, new coronary bypasses, and the first experiments that would lead to angioplasty. With their department colleagues, old and new, Delia and Alberto are committed to saving lives and finding new ways to innovate medicine. Their private lives also present challenges, tensions, and complicated choices.
Alongside familiar faces, new characters bring the department to life: head physician Luciano La Rosa, (Fausto Maria Sciarappa); pulmonologist Roberta Gallo (Giorgia Salari); and a charismatic psychic (Giulio Scarpati).
All Heart is again set in the city of Turin: the central location of the Molinette hospital has interiors built in the Lumiq Studios, and exteriors provided by the Alessandro Riberi barracks.
Exterior locations include Docks Dora again, with some new, evocative locations including: the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Juvarra Theater of Turin with its splendid interiors, Palazzo Birago, CNR (National Research Council), Cavour Gardens and the garden of Palazzo Cisterna, the Church of the Madonna dei Dolori in Borgo Cornalese, San Giuseppe Institute, and the cinema Centrale.
Locations for Season 3 also included the municipalities of Collegno and Mathi, involved thanks to the Film Commission Torino Piemonte Regional Network.
