Noble intentions

A troubled prince plots to preserve his family's legacy in 19th-century Sicily

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NETFLIX The Leopard NEW Available: Wednesday 5 March Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6

The decline and fall of Sicily's aristocracy is at the heart of this sumptuous Italian period drama based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's world-famous 1958 novel The Leopard.

Set against the backdrop of revolution in the 1860s, the six-part sweeping epic follows the erudite and melancholic Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina (Kim Rossi Stuart), who fears his family's future is under threat as General Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts are leading Italy towards unification.