Cattleya Producciones, a production company that specializes in the creation of drama series and films, and is part of ITV Studios, has acquired the audiovisual rights to Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel El Italiano, which it will be adapting for television in a mini-series format. Inspired by real events, El Italiano is a story of love, spies, and the sea set at the height of World War II in the Bay of Algeciras, where Italian combat divers are causing chaos among the Allied forces. The destinies of Elena Arbués and Teseo Lombardo will cross paths in an espionage plot that takes place on both sides of the Fence of Gibraltar. The novel has been a bestseller in 2021 and 2022, with more than 500,000 copies sold in Spanish, and was just recently launched in Italy, where it’s been available in…
