Daniel Speck “Bella Germany” is a German-Italian family saga spanning three generations, three dramas, and two countries.
Munich, 2014. Talented German fashion designer Julia has finally achieved major success by winning at Milan Fashion Week. But the price of such hard-won success is too high—no personal life, not a single chance to slow down or look around. Exactly at this moment, an unknown old German man appears in her life, introducing himself as her grandfather on her father’s side. But her father is Italian…
Milan, 1954. Young German engineer Vincent arrives at an automobile plant to test a new Italian model. He least expects that this trip will not only change his fate, but also become the beginning of the love and drama of his entire life.
Sicily, 1970. Young Vincenzo comes from Munich to his parents’ homeland, the Italian island of Salina, where time seems to stop. His last summer of childhood—and neither he nor his family yet know that, in a few years, an incredible drama will shatter their difficult but well-off life into the smallest pieces.
Speck’s novel, by one of Germany’s best-known writers and screenwriters, has recently been adapted into a film by director Gregor Schnitzler. The three-part TV movie “Bella Germany” aired with great success on German television.