DRAMA
Hotel Portofino S1
A heady historical drama about a British family who establish a hotel for upper class travellers on the magical Italian Riviera during the ‘Roaring 20s’. The Hotel has only been open a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its co-proprietor and moving spirit, Bella Ainsworth (Natascha McElhone): she’s short of staff and ready money; her guests, including the imperious Lady Latchmere
(Anna Chancellor), are demanding and hard - to -please; and she’s being targeted by a scheming and
corrupt local politician, Signor Danioni (Pasquale Esposito), who threatens to drag her into the red
- hot
political cauldron of Mussolini’s Italy.