The Octopus (1984)
The Octopus (1984)
Plot.
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Davide Licata
Raoul Bova
Vice-commissario Gianni Breda
Patricia Millardet
Silvia Conti
Remo Girone
Tano Cariddi
Michele Placido
Commissario Corrado Cattani
Nicola Badalucco
Creator
Orso Maria Guerrini
Giuseppe Carta
Lucio Battistrada
Creator
Stefan Danailov
Nazareno 'Nuzzo' Marciano
Luigi Perelli
Director
Florinda Bolkan
Olga Camastra
Paul Guers
Professor Gianfranco Laudeo
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
François Périer
Avvocato Terrasini
Elena Arvigo
Giulia Mercuri, Aldo's Daughter
Rolf Hoppe
Professor Ramonte
Nicole Jamet
Else Cattani
Massimo De Rita
Writer
Ana Torrent
Maria Favignana Cariddi
Xavier Deluc
Lorenzo Ribeira
Pierre Mondy
Don Amilcare Attilio Brenno
Gianni Garofalo
Marco Brenno
Bruno Cremer
Antonio Espinosa
Luigi Diberti
Ettore Salimbeni
Ferruccio De Ceresa
Generale Alessio Amadei
Damiano Damiani
Director
Florestano Vancini
Director
Giacomo Battiato
Director
Riz Ortolani
Original Music Composer
Paolo Buonvino
Original Music Composer
Tony Sperandeo
Santino Rocchi / Turi Mondello / Segretario di Terrasini
Martin Balsam
Frank Carrisi
Daniel Ceccaldi
Nicola Sorbi
Anja Kling
Barbara Greenberg Altamura
Maurizio Donadoni
Colonnello Valente
Giovanna Rei
Valentina
Peppe Zarbo
Carmine Torrisi
Fabrizio Contri
Barone Altamura
Sebastiano Lo Monaco
Torrisi, the Lawyer
Guia Jelo
Prostitute
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 11, 1984
Original NameLa Piovra
StatusEnded
Seasons10
Episodes48
Running Time2h
Content RatingTV-14
Genres
Wiki.
La Piovra (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈpjɔːvra]; English: The Octopus, referring to the Mafia) is an Italian television drama series about the Mafia. The series was directed by various directors who each worked on different seasons, including Damiano Damiani (first season), Florestano Vancini (second season), Luigi Perelli (from the third to the seventh season and again on the tenth season), and Giacomo Battiato (from the eighth to the ninth seasons).
The music was written by Riz Ortolani (first season), Ennio Morricone (from the second to the seventh season and again on the tenth season), and by Paolo Buonvino (from the eighth to the ninth season).
The show was successfully exported to over eighty countries during and after its sixteen-year run. All ten seasons were released in Australia on DVD with English subtitles by Aztec International Entertainment, having originally aired on the Special Broadcasting Service television channel. It was also broadcast on MHz Networks in the United States. The first three seasons were shown in the UK on Channel 4.
The TV drama was successful in the Eastern Bloc, where it appeared on state TV in 1986 and in Albania, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria, where it appeared in the end of the 1980s (in its seventh season, the show featured Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov). In Portugal, it was re-broadcast by RTP Memória.
La Piovra is still considered to be the most famous Italian television series in the world, and all seasons received widespread public approval, with an average of 10 million and a peak of 15 million viewers. The show presents an extremely realistic portrayal of the violence and heartlessness of members of organized crime, and this remains the most distinctive feature of the production to this day.