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La piovra
DVD collection
Original languageItalian
No. of seasons10
No. of episodes48
Original release
NetworkRAI
ReleaseMarch 11, 1984 –
January 11, 2001

La Piovra (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈpjɔːvra]; Template:Lang-en, referring to "The Mafia") 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[1] in Albania, in Romania, in Poland and in Bulgaria, where is appeared in the end of the 1980s (in its seventh season, the show featured Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov). In Portugal was re-casted by RTP Memória.

Cast

Soundtracks

References

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