The Octopus (Series 1) - 3-DVD Set ( La Piovra ) ( The Octopus - Series One )

The Octopus (Series 1) - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Piovra
Alternate Title: The Octopus - Series One
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
392 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Damiano Damiani

Written By:
Nicola Badalucco
Lucio Battistrada

Actors:
Michele Placido ..... Commissario Corrado Cattani
Barbara De Rossi ..... Comtessa Raffaella Pecci Scialoia / Titti
Nicole Jamet ..... Else Cattani
Angelo Infanti ..... Sante Cirinná
Pino Colizzi ..... Nanni Santamaria
Renato Mori ..... Vice-Commissario Altero
Massimo Bonetti ..... Vice-Commissario Leo De Maria
Eurilla Del Bona ..... Anna Caruso
Cariddi Nardulli ..... Paola Cattani
Geoffrey Copleston ..... Alfredo Ravanusa
Michele Abruzzo ..... Ruggiero / Marquess's butler
Jacques Dacqmine ..... Professor Sebastiano Cannito
Paul Guers ..... Professor Gianfranco Laudeo
Flavio Bucci ..... Don Manfredi
Florinda Bolkan ..... Contessa Olga Camastra

Synopsis:

One of the most popular TV series ever in Italy, La Piovra has developed a cult popularity world-wide, and now, the whole series will be made available for the first time anywhere with English sub-titles. Central character, Corrado Cattani is played by Michele Placido, and his character forms the backbone of a sprawling tale of the Mafia, one unequaled in breadth to date. The eternal values of Mafia tales are here in spades the purity of the battle against crime versus the safety of family and loved ones. Music by Riz Ortolani adds to the mood of authenticity. Production quality is very high through the series, and the cast contains some of Italy's finest actors.

Episode 1 - Police commissioner lives a family nightmare: he is too straight to accept the one-time infidelity of his wife, thirteen years ago, may be because he is unsure of the paternity of the twelve-year-old daughter he loves. Police commissioner finds diversion in a new job recently opened in a small Sicilian village, when local commissioner is found dead in his car, shot by the Mafia. Episode 2 - Police commissioner searches for the truth and finds love in the eyes full of sorrow of a 22-y-o countess who, by sheer coincidence, lost her mother by suicide the night the commissioner was murdered - open and shut case, says local police. Police commissioner is too suspicious of everybody to find his way up the social ladder, though he benefits from the counsel and protection of his former Law Professor. Episode 3 - Police commissioner does not find a way out of his criminal puzzles, and his wife leaves for their house in the North; their daughter is broken-hearted. Episode 4 - Police commissioner sets the trap to catch a few large mice, and his daughter is kidnapped. Episode 5 - Police commissioner starts lying to everybody: his wife, about their daughter's whereabouts, and the handful of good cops who trust him about how to go on with the investigation. First his mistakes, then his implied admission that he shot two men and planted evidence of a murder in one of them, sets a murderer free. Episode 6 - Police commissioner sets a few scores right, but he his resigning his post, his family is more in a shambles than ever, the Sicilian Group 'I Culturati' is more powerful than ever, and he is visiting the tomb of his lost countess. The open and shut case is not closed, and the police commissioner is too tired to go on.

Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus"). Even as his family and life are being destroyed by ruthless criminals, the intrepid comissar keeps fighting...

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 30 November, 2007.

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