La piovra
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| La piovra | |
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 DVD collection | |
| Narrated by | see Cast |
| Original language | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 48 |
| Original release | |
| Network | RAI |
| Release | March 11, 1984 – January 11, 2001 |
La Piovra (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈpjɔːvra]; English: The Octopus, referring to "The Mafia"[1]) is an Italian television drama miniseries about the Mafia.
The story was by Sandro Petraglia. The production was designed by Luigi Perelli. The soundtrack was by Riz Ortolani and later by Ennio Morricone, who went on to compose music for several sequels.
All 10 series have been released in Australia on DVD by Aztec International Entertainment, with English subtitles, having been originally aired on the Special Broadcasting Service television channel. It was also broadcast on MHz Networks in the United States. The first three series were shown in the UK on Channel 4.
The TV drama was successful in the USSR, where it appeared on state TV in 1986[2] in Albania, in Romania, and in Bulgaria, where is appeared in the end of the 1980s (in its seventh season, the show featured Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov).
Cast
- Michele Placido as Corrado Cattani
- Patricia Millardet as Silvia Conti
- Remo Girone as Tano Cariddi
- Raoul Bova as Gianni Breda (La Piovra 7) and Carlo Arcuti (La Piovra 8 e 9)
- Vittorio Mezzogiorno as Davide Licata
- Florinda Bolkan as Countess Olga Camastra
- Daniela "Mietta" Miglietta as Rosaria Albanese
- Luca Zingaretti as Pietro Favignana
- Claude Rich as Filippo Rasi
- Jean-Luc Bideau as Davide Faeti
Soundtracks
References
External links
- La Piovra at IMDb (1984) 402 min
- La Piovra 2 at IMDb (1985) 384 min
- La Piovra 3 at IMDb (1987) 430 min
- La Piovra 4 at IMDb (1989) 600 min
- La Piovra 5 – Il cuore del problema at IMDb (1990) 400 min
- La Piovra 6 – L' ultimo segreto at IMDb (1992) 420 min
- La Piovra 7 at IMDb (1994) 600 min
- La Piovra 8 – Lo scandalo at IMDb (1997) 220 min
- La Piovra 9 – Il patto at IMDb (1998) 220 min
- La Piovra 10 at IMDb (2001) 200 min