Prime Video has officially announced the production of It’s Not a Country for Singles, a new Italian Original film, an adaptation of the bestseller of the same name published by Newton Compton by the record-breaking author Felicia Kingsley, the stage name of the Carpi writer Serena Artioli. Filming for No Country for Singles is currently underway in Tuscany, and so the time has come to reveal the film’s cast.
The works of Felicia Kingsley
Author of the year at the TikTok Book Awards 2024 with over three million copies in Italy and 15 bestsellers, translated in 19 countries, Felicia Kingsley was the most read author of 2023. Her debut with Marriage of Convenience in 2017 was followed by bestsellers such as Two Hearts for Rent and The Truth Is That I Don’t Hate You Enough, up to the most recent A Conquest Off the Menu, short stories like Appointment on the Terrace, the Booklover reading diary and the journal Ex Files. Kingsley also edited the introduction to All the Novels of Jane Austen and translated An Unfashionable Girl by Louisa May Alcott.
What is it about? It’s not a country for singles
In an idyllic Tuscan town, Belvedere in Chianti, everyone is in a couple or looking for a soul mate, except Elisa (Matilde Gioli), a single mother who manages the Le Giuggiole estate. The return to the village of Michele (Cristiano Caccamo), a childhood friend whom he had lost sight of for years, turns his life upside down and reawakens feelings that he thought had disappeared forever.
The cast of No Country for Singles
The protagonists of the romantic comedy will be Matilde Gioli (Doc – in your hands) and Cristiano Caccamo (LOL 3, Sono Lillo). Alongside them in the cast also Amanda Campana, Sebastiano Pigazzi, Cecilia Dazzi, Margherita Rebeggiani and with Marco Cocci and with the participation of Bebo Storti.
The film is directed by Laura Chiossone and written by Alessandra Martellini, Giulia Magda Martinez and Matteo Visconti, co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios with Italian International Film – Lucisano Media Group.
When No Country for Singles comes out on Prime Video
The film will be released on Prime Video in 2025.
