A Professor
Based on the Catalan format Merlí by Hector Lozano, produced by Veranda for TV3 Lagardère Studios Distribution. Dante Balestra is a philosophy teacher who, after many years away, returns to Rome to care for his son Simone. Charming and unconventional, the teacher takes a class at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School, where he applies his unconventional teaching methods and develops a very special relationship with his students, including Simone. But his approach quickly leads to his personal and professional lives becoming confused, and the return from the past of Anita, a former flame of his and now the mother of Manuel, the class "black sheep," makes things even more complicated.
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Nonconformist Dante returns to Rome to teach high school philosophy, bonding with his students as he navigates life as a single dad.
1.Socrates
11-11-202156mDante returns to Rome and immediately takes his students to heart.
2.Roland Barthes
11-11-202156mDante visits Pin, a student who hasn't left home for months.
3.Kant
7.018-11-202157mDanye meets Cecilia, a parent representative and Aureliano's mother, and is immediately smitten.
4.Plato
7.018-11-202157mDante approaches Anita about Manuel's troubles.
5.Aristotle
25-11-202151mDante presents a lesson on Aristotle and happiness.
6.Giordano Bruno
25-11-202159mConvinced that Simone and Manuel are not telling the truth, Dante takes the class to Campo dei Fiori.
7.Michel Foucault
02-12-202155mDante presents a lesson on Michel Focault, a sociologist persecuted for his homosexuality.
8.Guy Debord
02-12-202154mThe class visits Cecilia's museum.
9.Stuart Mill
09-12-202156mDante's relationship with Cecilia breaks down after Aureliano finds out.
10.Schopenhauer
09-12-202157mSimone returns from Glasgow and organizes a clandestine party at school for her birthday.
11.Rousseau
16-12-202149mDante takes the class to the Colosseum and presents a lesson on Rousseau.
12.Nietzsche
16-12-202158mA tragic event leads Dante to relive an unresolved trauma.
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