La Piovra

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If you don’t have seen this TV Series, you must to see, trust my, this series is absolutely great!

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Where fact and fiction coincide

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Cast: Michele Placido, Patricia Millardet, Remo Girone, Raoul Bova, Vittorio Mezzogiorno

Original broadcaster: RAI Cinema

For fans of. . . : Paolo Borsellino (2004), Il capo dei capi (2007), L’ultimo padrino (2008)Gomorra, la serie (2014)

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“Lasting over ten seasons, each with forty-eight episodes, La Piovra (The Octopus) was a big beast. It told the complex and intertwining stories of warring mafia families, as they eluded the law in the form of Commissioner Cattani (Michele Placido). A determined opponent, whose own family is murdered by the mafia, Cattani seeks to destroy La Piovra. Its links with organized crime, freemasonry, politics, and business unfold, as does the organization’s relentless brutality.

The last three series were actually prequels to the first seven, flashing out the background of the main characters during the 1960s and 1970s.

During the seventeen years in which the series aired, accounts of real-life mafia activities were unfolding in Italy’s courts and media. Because of this, the series came under strong political pressure to end. The second and third series aired in 1986 and 1987, while the Maxi Trial against Cosa Nostra was taking place in Palermo, Sicily (lasting 22 months and leading to life sentence for nineteen mafia bosses and 324 convictions). Later, the killing of Cattani in the program’s fourth series anticipated the real-life murders of the anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

During this time viewing figures for La Piovra in Italy peaked at 17 million.

La Piovra was successfully exported to 80 continues, and was particularly popular in Russia, Bulgaria, and Albania. In the UK, the first three series were broadcast by Channel 4.”(AC)

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