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MARIA MONTESSORI

LA NOUVELLE FEMME

By Léa TODOROV

PATHE FILMS (SWITZERLAND) - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, SWITZERLAND

Historical - Completed 2023

A Parisian courtesan flees to Rome to protect her reputation when her daughter's learning disability could become exposed. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Director(s)
- Léa TODOROV
- Cast
- Leila BEKHTI, Jasmine TRINCA
- Synopsis
- Lili d’Alengy, a famous Parisian darling, has a shameful secret – a daughter with a disability, Tina, whom she needs to hide in order to protect her career. She decides to leave Paris for Rome.
  
  Unwilling and unable to care for Tina, Lili seeks help from Maria Montessori, a doctor who is developing a teaching method for children labeled as ‘idiotic’. But Maria also has a secret – a child born out of wedlock. Soon she'll be forced to choose between her career and her child. The two women will help each other earn their place in a man’s world – and make History.