| La Piovra | |
|---|---|
| Original language(s) | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 48 |
| Release | |
| Original network | RAI |
| Picture format | Color |
| Original release | March 11, 1984 – January 11, 2001 |
La Piovra (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈpjɔːvra]; English: The Octopus (referring to 'The Mafia') is an Italian television drama miniseries about the Mafia.
Sandro Petraglia wrote the story and Luigi Perelli designed the production. The soundtrack was by Riz Ortolani and later by Ennio Morricone, who also composed music for several sequels.
All ten series were released in Australia on DVD with English subtitles by Aztec International Entertainment, having 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-cast by RTP Memória.
Cast[edit]
- 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 Piovra8 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
- François Marthouret as Senator Ernesto Conti
Soundtracks[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- La Piovra on IMDb (1984) 402 min
- La Piovra 2 on IMDb (1985) 384 min
- La Piovra 3 on IMDb (1987) 430 min
- La Piovra 4 on IMDb (1989) 600 min
- La Piovra 5 – Il cuore del problema on IMDb (1990) 400 min
- La Piovra 6 – L' ultimo segreto on IMDb (1992) 420 min
- La Piovra 7 on IMDb (1994) 600 min
- La Piovra 8 – Lo scandalo on IMDb (1997) 220 min
- La Piovra 9 – Il patto on IMDb (1998) 220 min
- La Piovra 10 on IMDb (2001) 200 min