{ "id": "epy9j7k1ze", "slug": "curon", "title": "Curon", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series", "label": "Drama and prestige series (individual series)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.science-fiction-horror-and-supernatural", "label": "Science fiction, horror, and supernatural", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.science-fiction-horror-and-supernatural" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series", "label": "Western Europe · 2001 to 2020: Drama and prestige series (individual series)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series", "path": [ { "id": "geo.weu", "label": "Western Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001", "label": "Western Europe · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series", "label": "Drama and prestige series (individual series)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Curon is a 2020 Italian Netflix supernatural thriller series, also known as a Lake Resia doppelganger drama, created by Ezio Abbate and others; seven episodes in which teen twins investigate their mother's disappearance in the South Tyrol village flooded in 1950.", "snippet": "Curon is a 2020 Italian Netflix supernatural thriller series, also known as a Lake Resia doppelganger drama, created by Ezio Abbate and others; seven episodes in which teen twins investigate their mother's disappearance in the South Tyrol village flooded in 1950.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.science-fiction-horror-and-supernatural", "markdown": "# Curon\n\n**Curon** is a 2020 Italian supernatural thriller television series produced for Netflix, in which a woman who returns after 17 years to her hometown on Lake Resia disappears, leaving her teenage twins to confront a local legend about doppelgangers emerging from the submerged old village.[1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850) • [2](https://media.netflix.com/it/only-on-netflix/81037850) It was created by Ezio Abbate, Ivano Fachin, and Giovanni Galassi, produced by Indiana Production, and released as a single season of seven episodes on June 10, 2020.[3](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-announces-3-new-italian-original-series-curon-tre-metri-sopra-il-cielo-reboot-fedelta) • [1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | One season, 7 episodes, released June 10, 2020 on Netflix; episode runtimes of roughly 41 to 51 minutes[1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850) |\n| Creators | Ezio Abbate (head writer), Ivano Fachin, Giovanni Galassi, and Tommaso Matano; produced by Indiana Production[3](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-announces-3-new-italian-original-series-curon-tre-metri-sopra-il-cielo-reboot-fedelta) |\n| Directors | Fabio Mollo and Lyda Patitucci[4](https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/389113/) |\n| Main cast | Valeria Bilello (Anna), Luca Lionello (Thomas), Federico Russo (Mauro), Margherita Morchio (Daria)[1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850) |\n| Setting | Curon Venosta, South Tyrol, at the artificial Lake Resia, created in 1950 by flooding the old town for a hydroelectric dam[5](https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/televisione/i-segreti-di-curon-la-serie-dark-ambientata-in-alto-adige_19309296-202002a.shtml) |\n| Central legend | Hearing the bells of the half-submerged bell tower summons a doppelganger from the lake who wants to take the person's place[2](https://media.netflix.com/it/only-on-netflix/81037850) |\n| Reception | 63% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 8 reviews; IMDb rating 5.9[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/curon) • [7](https://it.flixboss.com/s/curon-81037850) |\n| Status | Ended after one season, with the finale leaving open questions about Anna's fate and the nature of the doubles[8](https://cinenote.org/curon/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and plot\n\nAnna Raina, born in Curon, returns after 17 years to the village with her teenage twins Mauro and Daria, settling in the dilapidated family-run hotel overlooking Lake Resia, where her father Thomas still lives.[9](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98064-0_19) • [10](https://www.repubblica.it/serietv/schede/curon/1829/) Shortly after the family arrives, Anna mysteriously disappears, and the twins' search for her drives the remaining episodes.[9](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98064-0_19)\n\nThe supernatural mechanism is tied to the village's history. According to the official synopsis, legend holds that on certain nights you can hear the bells of the church tower toll, although they were removed; when you hear the bells, the part of yourself you hide from, your doppelganger, comes out of the lake and wants to take your place.[2](https://media.netflix.com/it/only-on-netflix/81037850) In the series, at the onset of a psychological crisis a character experiences a debilitating headache and hears the increasingly intense ringing of the bells; as the ringing intensifies, the character's evil double emerges from the lake to murder the original \"good\" self and to vindicate harms the character suffered in the past.[9](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98064-0_19)\n\nThe seven episodes are titled, in order, \"Il lago nero,\" \"Il giorno successivo,\" \"L'assassino,\" \"I padri,\" \"La maledizione,\" \"I lupi,\" and \"Il labirinto.\"[1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850) The finale brings the Raina and Asper families together in a labyrinth and leaves several questions open about Anna's fate and the true nature of the doubles.[1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850) • [8](https://cinenote.org/curon/)\n\n## The real submerged town\n\nThe series takes its name and setting from a place that actually exists. The old town of Curon Venosta (Graun im Vinschgau), in the Venosta Valley of South Tyrol near the border with Austria, was displaced and completely submerged in 1950, when the Italian government built a large dam for hydroelectric power that unified the Resia and Mezzo lakes, flooding 523 hectares of cultivated land and 163 houses despite the residents' protests.[5](https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/televisione/i-segreti-di-curon-la-serie-dark-ambientata-in-alto-adige_19309296-202002a.shtml) • [11](https://www.comingsoon.it/serietv/curon/3160/scheda/) The bell tower of the church of Sant'Anna, the only building still partially visible, rises from the lake and exists today; the village was rebuilt higher up.[8](https://cinenote.org/curon/) • [11](https://www.comingsoon.it/serietv/curon/3160/scheda/)\n\nWriter Giovanni Galassi said the team started from the atmosphere of the place, and that the themes of identity and doubleness, the original village mirroring the submerged one, were already contained in the story they wanted to develop.[5](https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/televisione/i-segreti-di-curon-la-serie-dark-ambientata-in-alto-adige_19309296-202002a.shtml) Critics noted that the series also reworks the \"divided\" nature of the local community and the rivalry between Italians and [Austrians](https://www.edgepedia.org/austrians) through its theme of good and evil double identities.[10](https://www.repubblica.it/serietv/schede/curon/1829/)\n\n## Production and release\n\nNetflix announced Curon on March 29, 2019 as one of three new Italian original series, describing it as \"a bold genre show with supernatural elements,\" produced by Indiana Production with Ezio Abbate, previously a writer on *Suburra*, as head writer.[3](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-announces-3-new-italian-original-series-curon-tre-metri-sopra-il-cielo-reboot-fedelta) The series was shot over 61 days in the Upper Venosta Valley (Oberer Vinschgau), with production funding from IDM Südtirol/Alto Adige.[12](https://www.crew-united.com/en/Curon__261277.html)\n\nIt premiered on June 10, 2020, available in 190 countries.[4](https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/389113/) Audio options include the original Italian plus English, German, French, and Spanish dubs, among others.[1](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850)\n\n## Reception\n\nCritical response was mixed. Reviewers consistently praised the setting: Cineuropa called the bell tower rising out of the lake the driving force of the story and an image that stays with the viewer, while judging the overall result uneven.[4](https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/389113/) la Repubblica described the series as ambitious, citing international models such as *Dark* and *Les Revenants*, but concluded that it settles on too many genre clichés and lacks the accuracy needed for a credible supernatural world rooted in the place's specificity.[10](https://www.repubblica.it/serietv/schede/curon/1829/) Common Sense Media found it more teen drama than horror, rating it 16+ for strong language, drinking and smoking, and violence including shootings and visible blood.[13](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/curon) On Rotten Tomatoes the first season holds a 63% Tomatometer from 8 reviews.[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/curon)\n\nThe location itself drew recognition: the series was a finalist for the \"Best Location Award\" of the European Film Commissions Network (EUFCN) for the best European fiction location, and it was among the most-watched titles in Italy at release, with a positive reception also in Germany, where comparisons with *Dark* were drawn, and in Latin America.[14](https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/certa-Comunicazione_Media_Turismo_Volume.pdf) In the summer of 2020, shortly after release, the real town of Curon became a fashionable tourist destination.[15](https://unitesi.unive.it/retrieve/2ca80133-3898-40ec-8e8e-e78b64a8d792/863420-1260419.pdf)\n\nNetflix did not renew the series. A 2025 retrospective noted that it ended on a cliffhanger after one season.[8](https://cinenote.org/curon/)\n\n## Place in Italian television\n\nCuron approached the supernatural thriller, a genre rarely attempted by Italian series, and used the striking setting of Curon Venosta and its bell tower as a narrative engine rather than a backdrop.[10](https://www.repubblica.it/serietv/schede/curon/1829/) A scholarly chapter on the series argues that it is distinctive among Netflix's Italian youth series in combining the history of Italy's twentieth-century modernization, the dam that razed and flooded the town in the early 1950s, with the horrors of that legacy, placing it alongside novels such as Francesca Melandri's *Eva dorme* (2010) and Marco Balzano's *Resto qui* (2018) that inform readers about the history of [South Tyrol](https://www.edgepedia.org/south-tyrol).[9](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98064-0_19)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Curon, Netflix title page](https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81037850)\n2. [Curon, Netflix Media Center synopsis](https://media.netflix.com/it/only-on-netflix/81037850)\n3. [Netflix announces 3 new Italian original series: Curon, Tre metri sopra il cielo reboot, Fedeltà (29 March 2019), About Netflix](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-announces-3-new-italian-original-series-curon-tre-metri-sopra-il-cielo-reboot-fedelta)\n4. [Series review: Curon, Cineuropa (10 June 2020)](https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/389113/)\n5. [I segreti di \"Curon\", la serie dark ambientata in Alto Adige, Tgcom24 (11 June 2020)](https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/televisione/i-segreti-di-curon-la-serie-dark-ambientata-in-alto-adige_19309296-202002a.shtml)\n6. [Curon, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/curon)\n7. [Curon (2020) bei Netflix Italia, Flixboss](https://it.flixboss.com/s/curon-81037850)\n8. [Curon (2020): la vera storia del paese sommerso dietro la serie Netflix, CineNote](https://cinenote.org/curon/)\n9. [The Horrors of History in Netflix's Curon, Springer Nature Link (2024)](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98064-0_19)\n10. [Curon, Serie tv, la Repubblica](https://www.repubblica.it/serietv/schede/curon/1829/)\n11. [Curon, Serie TV (2020), ComingSoon.it](https://www.comingsoon.it/serietv/curon/3160/scheda/)\n12. [Curon, TV Series, Crew United](https://www.crew-united.com/en/Curon__261277.html)\n13. [Curon, Parents' Guide & TV Review, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/curon)\n14. [Comunicazione, Media e Turismo volume, Università Cattolica](https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/certa-Comunicazione_Media_Turismo_Volume.pdf)\n15. [Thesis on film-induced tourism and Lake Resia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia](https://unitesi.unive.it/retrieve/2ca80133-3898-40ec-8e8e-e78b64a8d792/863420-1260419.pdf)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Drama and prestige series (individual series) › Science fiction, horror, and supernatural*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/curon", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/curon.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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