"La piovra" (1984) TV mini-series

Director:

Damiano Damiani

Writers:

Nicola Badalucco (script)
Lucio Battistrada (written by)

Release Date:

11 March 1984 (Italy)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Family | Romance

Plot:

Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus")...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Mafia | Truth | Murder | Infidelity

Awards:

1 win

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Allein gegen die Mafia (West Germany)
La mafia (France) (dubbed version)
The Octopus

Runtime:

402 min | Netherlands:360 min

Country:

Italy | France | UK | West Germany

Language:

Italian | English | French

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:MA | Finland:K-18 (DVD) (2007) (self applied) | Portugal:M/12 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12 | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Escort Cine TV

Quotes:

Comtessa Raffaella Pecci Scialoia: I'm so scared of death... It's always so... unexpected.

Movie Connections:

Followed by La piovra 9 - Il patto (1998) (TV)

simply the best

La Piovra is simply the best film about the mob. I'm very sad, that only the seasons 1-7 had been shown in German TV. I can't understand, that there is no way to buy it on DVD or on VHS. The series was a big success and I know a lot of people who have watched every repeat of the seasons 1-7, like myself. Only the 6. Season is a little worse than the other ones. The pace is fantastic, even it is a TV-series. The cast and acting is great. Not only fantastic Italian actors had been casted, but a lot of great European actors join the series too, like Bruno Craemer, Rolf Hoppe, Mario Adorf. Now, in 2005 in Germany the first three seasons a released on DVD (German dubbed and Italian) and, as I read in the net, they startet on DVD in Portugal, France and Sweden. In the Netherlands you got the first four seasons in Italian with dutch subtitels. I hope, that this will bring more people to the series.