Director: Riccardo Donna
Cast: Carolina Crescentini, Filippo Nigro, Giuseppe Maggio, Francesca Colucci, Domenico Diele
Mrs Playmen is a 2025 Italian biographical drama series directed by Riccardo Donna, tracing the real story of Adelina, the fearless editor who built Italy's most provocative magazine into a cultural force — daring to champion female desire at a time when doing so could cost everything.
What is Mrs Playmen about?
Rome, the 1960s. At the helm of Playmen — Italy's most daring erotic publication — sits Adelina, a woman whose editorial vision stretches far beyond titillation. In an era when the Catholic Church shapes public morality and female sexuality is treated as scandalous, she insists on pairing sensual imagery with serious intellectual writing, feminist argument, and candid conversations about women's pleasure. Each issue she publishes is an act of defiance. Colleagues doubt her. Censors threaten her. Advertisers abandon her. Yet Adelina navigates each crisis with wit and resolve, steadily building a readership that treats the magazine as something unexpected: a space for liberation. The series follows her battles inside the newsroom and in Italian society across two defining decades.
Cast & crew
Director Riccardo Donna brings a measured, period-grounded touch to the production. Carolina Crescentini leads as Adelina, anchoring the series with intensity and nuance. Filippo Nigro and Giuseppe Maggio round out the core ensemble, while Francesca Colucci, Domenico Diele, Francesco Colella, Lidia Vitale, and Giampiero Judica populate the world around her.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers who grew up navigating societies where female expression and bodily autonomy were heavily policed, Mrs Playmen carries an unmistakable resonance. Adelina's fight — to speak plainly about desire, to refuse shame, to insist that women deserve both pleasure and intellectual respect — echoes struggles that many diaspora viewers know from their own family histories or from the country they left behind. Italian biographical drama has long excelled at placing personal courage against the backdrop of institutional conservatism, and this series sits squarely in that tradition. It is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles.
Where & how to watch
Mrs Playmen is available on K-Time with full Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, on your TV دستگاه, or on your phone — no extra download required, no VPN, no geo-blocking. Subscribe and cancel anytime.