La Piovra is an acclaimed Italian Television drama miniseries about the Mafia. The story was by Sandro Petraglia. The production was designed by Luigi Perelli. The soundtrack was by Riz Ortolani and later by Ennio Morricone, who went on to compose music for several sequels. All 10 series have been released in Australia on DVD by Aztec International Entertainment, with English subtitles, having been 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 wildly successful in the USSR, where it appeared on state TV in 1986 and in Bulgaria, where is also appeared in the end of the 1980s bg:Октопод, offering to the viewers of both countries thrills and dark drama from beyond the Iron Curtain. La Piovra was also shown in 1987–1988 in communist Albania, where it became a huge hit and remains to date a cult film, whose characters and expressions have permeated culture, language and society.
Amazon.com: Watch The Octopus: The Complete Series | Prime ...The Octopus (La Piovra) was a global hit that ran from 1984 to 2001 and made a star of Michele Placido. This epic Mafia thriller explores the criminal culture that extends its tentacles into all of society and features a powerful and evocative score by Academy award winning composer Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Mission).
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La piovra (TV MiniCreated by Lucio Battistrada, Massimo De Rita. With Michele Placido, Barbara De Rossi, Patricia Millardet, Nicole Jamet. 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...
The Octopus: The Complete Series on 21The Octopus: The Complete Series on 21-DVDs First broadcast in 1984 by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, The Octopus (La Piovra) was an international phenomenon, running for ten seasons over 18 years and making a star of its lead actor, Michele Placido. This Mafia thriller broke new ground as it explored wars between law enforcement and the criminal network rooted in Sicily.
The Octopus (La Piovra)The Octopus (La Piovra) is a groundbreaking Italian television series that ran for 10 seasons from 1984 to 2001.It explored the tenacious grip of the Mafia in Sicily (hence the title) and told the story of one police captain's struggle to destroy it.
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