The Octopus (Series 10) - 2-DVD Set ( La piovra 10 ) ( The Octopus - Series Ten )

The Octopus (Series 10) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La piovra 10
Alternate Title: The Octopus - Series Ten
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
200 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-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:
Luigi Perelli

Written By:
Pier Giuseppe Murgia
Sergio Silva

Actors:
Remo Girone ..... Tano Cariddi
Patricia Millardet ..... Silvia Conti, Deputy Prosecutor
Elena Arvigo ..... Giulia Mercuri, Aldo's Daughter
Rolf Hoppe ..... Professor Ramonte
Arturo Paglia ..... Marco Rittone, Edoardo's Son
Francesco Siciliano ..... Commissario Leonardi
Gilberto Idonea ..... Edoardo Rittone, a Lawyer
Giampiero Bianchi ..... Alfredo, Silvia's Husband
Pietro Biondi ..... Chief Prossecutor
Franco Graziosi
Gabriele Bocciarelli ..... Vanya Marinoff, Ramonte's Pupil
Giuseppe Pattavina ..... Senator Aldo Mercuri (as Pippo Pattavina)
Mariella Lo Giudice ..... Cariddi's Servant
Silvie Pariset
Hedy Krissane ..... Hedy, Mercuri's Servant (as Hedy Krissaane)
Saro Pizzuto
Dafni Michele Abruzzo
Giuseppe Castiglia
Cosimo Coltraro
Sergio Rosario Seminara
Giuseppe Centineo
Ramona Badescu ..... Maria Cariddi, Tano's Mother (archive footage) (uncredited)
Simona Cavallari ..... Esther Rasi, Tano's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
Maria Pia Di Meo ..... Silvia Conti (voice) (uncredited)
Sergio Fiorentini ..... Professor Ramonte (voice) (uncredited)
Michele Placido ..... Commissario Corrado Catani (archive footage) (uncredited)

Synopsis:

The final instalment in the legendary Octopus Series from RAI Italy. Throughout The Octopus series we have seen many generations of the Mafia, starting in the 1950's and now ending in the 1990's.We return to find an ageing and solitary Tano Cariddi in his hideaway on the slopes of Mount Etna, where we left him at the end of Octopus Series 7. He is tormented at night by his past: his mother, father, sister, wife, lost loves and villainy are the nocturnal phantoms from which Tano is trying to escape. Men, young and old, obliged to defend a proud past; young sons, knowing or oblivious, having to make cruel decisions: whether to be ruined by shame or to embark on an extreme and lawless adventure.

Someone wrote before that La Piovra 10 is full of clichés, and I must admit that some situations and complex family relationships tend to repeat each others through the series, even in the two prequel series (8 and 9, that should be seen before the others, actually). But if you seat back and think, what was the real history of Sicily since the Allied invasion in 1945, but the substitution of underground alliances of local mafia, and new power lords? That pattern kept repeating itself, only technology changed - and that is clear contrasted between Series 8 (the Fifties), 9 (the Sixties), 1 to 7 (the Seventees and Eighties), and 10 (the Ninetees). In the earlier episodes, you listened behind closed doors to learn secrets, than you started breaking computer codes, and in the end you have characters talking to each other through second generation mobile phones - though the most terrible secrets amassed through decades are still kept in now old-fashioned floppy disks. The methods of killing changed a little, from the flick-knife or the razor-blade to the untraceable drugs that kill slowly, but efficiently, passing through the (American introduced) machine-guns (the 1960s) and time-bombs (the 1970s).

We return to find an ageing and solitary Tano Cariddi in his hideaway on the slopes of Mount Etna, where we left him at the end of Octopus 7. He is tormented at night by his past: his
mother, father, sister, wife, lost loves and villainy are the nocturnal phantoms from which Tano is trying to escape. Men, young and old, obliged to defend a proud past; young sons, knowing or oblivious, having to make cruel decisions: whether to be ruined by shame or to embark on an extreme and lawless adventure.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 29 July, 2009.

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