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25 September (2001-09-25) – 18 December 2001 (2001-12-18)
Compagni di scuola (English: Classmates) is an Italian teencomedy-drama television series that aired in 2001. It was produced by Publiglobo in collaboration with Rai Fiction and broadcast on the network Raidue. The show is an adaptation of the Spanish TV series Compañeros by Antena 3.
Plot
Set in the school world, the series tells the story of professors and students of the "Giacomo Leopardi" Experimental Scientific High School in Rome. The series explores the complexities of relationships, career ambitions, and personal growth within a school setting.
The main characters are the Salina brothers:
Felice Salina (played by Massimo Lopez): A fifty-year-old, intellectual, single vice principal, and philosophy teacher who is deeply invested in his role at the school.
Giovanni Salina (played by Paolo Sassanelli): A younger, more outgoing science teacher who was married and is now divorced, grappling with the emotional challenges of being separated from his ex-wife while raising his daughter.
Their stories intertwine with those of their students, particularly those in class IV F, and other faculty members, creating a rich tapestry of personal and professional interactions.
This series, made in 2001 by the production company Publiglobo (controlled by Publispei) and Rai Fiction, is the Italian adaptation of the Spanish TV series Compañeros by Antena 3. The screenwriters were Mattia Betti, Sandro Petraglia, Fidel Signorile, Stefano Tummolini, and Alessandro Pondi. The direction was by Tiziana Aristarco and Claudio Norza.
The series was released in a DVD box set, now out of print.
Episodes
The first and only season of the Italian TV series 'Classmates', consisting of 26 episodes, was broadcast as a first-run television show on Rai Due from September 25 to December 18 2001.
A new school year begins at the "Giacomo Leopardi" scientific high school. Felice Salina is the vice-principal, a gruff man who melts at the sight of Professor Marisa Ferrero, who taught at the high school 8 years earlier and who has now returned. Felice's brother is Giovanni, a young and carefree science teacher (so much so that he arrives late on the first day of school). Among the students are Michele Reale, who has always been in conflict with Felice, his ex Valeria and her friends Arianna and Martina, the nice Pietro and his best friend Marco. Among the teachers. Virginia Giovardi, in love with Giovanni, Giorgio Baldanza, Margherita Andreoli, the principal Crespo; we meet the caretaker Milva, Marisa's friend and the school gossip. There is also Giovanni's daughter, little Sara. We also attend the beginning of the year party and in the meantime Sara's elementary school temporarily merges with the high school.
The Fourteenth
Directed by: Tiziana Aristarco, Claudio Norza
Written by:
Plot
At the end of the first episode Giovanni's car is destroyed. In this new episode Felice blames Michele Reale, who however is innocent. The boy reveals to Valeria, his ex-girlfriend, that it was his friend Er Pantera in his presence. In the meantime Arianna's father (former professor of Leopardi) accepts his firstborn Francesca and her child into his home, after old grudges.
