# Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story (2023)

> A six-episode Italian dramatization follows the Claps family's decades-long search for their daughter Elisa after her 1993 disappearance in Potenza.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/151838

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 58 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Terry Cafolla, Valerio D'Annunzio, Andrea Valagussa
- Network: Rai 1, RaiPlay
- Cast: Gianmarco Saurino, Anna Ferruzzo, Giacomo Giorgio, Vincenzo Ferrera, Giulio Della Monica, Bianca Nappi, Ludovica Ciaschetti, Marta Giovannozzi
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27470288/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: somber, mournful, restrained, tense, sincere

## What critics say

Audiences rate this dramatization of the Elisa Claps case positively, with an overall audience score of 7.6/10, though its single season is rated lower at 5.0/10.

## Synopsis

Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story (2023) is a Rai 1 Italian true crime miniseries created by Terry Cafolla, Valerio D'Annunzio and Andrea Valagussa. Told across six hour-long episodes, it dramatizes the real disappearance of Elisa Claps, a young woman last seen in Potenza on 12 September 1993, and the case that followed over roughly twenty years. Ludovica Ciaschetti plays Elisa, while Anna Ferruzzo gives the story its emotional center as Filomena Claps, the mother who refuses to let the investigation drift into silence. Gianmarco Saurino plays Gildo Claps, the brother who keeps pressing authorities, and Giulio Della Monica plays Daniele Restivo, the figure at the heart of the murders. The series moves between the southern Italian town of Potenza and the English coast at Bournemouth, tracing how a family's persistence collides with local indifference and institutional reluctance. Each episode trades on procedural patience, quiet domestic grief and the slow accumulation of evidence rather than sensational set pieces. The tone is sober, mournful and restrained, with a steady undercurrent of injustice. Fans of Making a Murderer, The Staircase and Il Delitto di Via Poma will find its blend of factual reconstruction and family-driven grief familiar and affecting, though it lands as a sombre watch rather than an easy one.

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