mafia - rai · 2 director: fabrizio costa starring: anita caprioli, alessio boni, massimo ghini the...
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DIRECTOR: Ricki TognazziStarring: Nicole Grimaudo, Ettore Bassi, Antonio Gerardi
Palermo, the ‘70s. Boris Giuliano, an exceptional police chief revolutionizes the investigative procedures of Palermo’s Police Squad. His thorough investigations reconstruct the secret criminal activity of Cosa Nostra, providing the foundation for the 1986 Maxi Trial led by magistrates Falcone and Borsellino. He sets up and is appointed chief of what becomes known as the Justice Squad. His fluent English helps him establish a collaboration with US Federal law enforcement and pursue transatlantic Sicilian heroin trafficking investigations.
TRANSATLANTIC TIESBORIS GIULIANO. UN POLIZIOTTO A PALERMO
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - HD - 2016
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DIRECTOR: Fabrizio CostaStarring: Anita Caprioli, Alessio Boni, Massimo GhiniThe days when the Mafia ruled Sicily could soon be just a memory. The Catturandi are an elite police force with the sole objective of rounding up members of the mob, many of whom have been on the run for years. The officers are all local to Sicily and their dedication to the job, which is so dangerous that it requires them to conceal their identities, has won the hearts of residents and gained their support in hunting down Mafia criminals.
PALERMO POLICE SQUADLA CATTURANDI
TV SERIES - DRAMA - 6X100’ OR 12X50’ - HD - 2015
DIRECTOR: Carmine EliaStarring: Claudio Gioè, Gabriella PessionModern day Rome, everything begins with a high turn over at restaurant that changes ownership and is renovated multiple times in a year. Workers without benefits, little flaws here and there, but Chief Bonfanti is certain there is a lot more to it...
THE SYSTEMIL SISTEMA
TV SERIES - 6X100’ - HD - 2016
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DIRECTOR: Enzo MonteleoneStarring: Giuseppe Fiorello, Massimo Popolizio, Elena Tchepelev
DIRECTOR: Gianfranco AlbanoStarring: Lunetta Savino, Carmelo Galati, Barbara Tabita
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - HD - 2016
A story inspired by the life of Roberto Mancini, the hero officer who first discovered the illegal waste dumping committed by the mafia in the area which sadly has become known as the “Land of Fire”. Inspector Marco Giordano happens to be investigating waste trafficking in the south of Italy. His determination leads him to go deeper and deeper into uncovering the truth, regardless of the obstacles he meets, paying for this terrible discovery with his life.
LAND OF FIREIO NON MI ARRENDO
A WOMAN OF COURAGEFELICIA IMPASTATO
TV MOVIE - 100’ - HD - 2016
The first woman in Italy’s history to stand against the mafia at trial was Felicia Impastato. Becoming a symbol in her pacific fight for justice. After her husband and activist son are assassinated by the local criminal families, victims of the bloody cultural system deeply rooted in Sicily, she decides to speak out. As she said, “the mafia is not to be fought with a gun, but with culture”.
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DIRECTOR: Giulio ManfredoniaStarring: Guido Caprino“The Sting” tells a very complex truth, that of Casal Del Principe and the Naples Police Department. Detective Romano is inspired by a real officer, Vittorio Pisani, who captured the mafia boss Iovine of the Casalesi clan, who had been in hiding since 1996. Anna a young woman who is protected by the mafia boss Iovine is half involved and half victim. The police is keeping her under surveillance so as to find out where the boss is hiding. Anna dreams of having a bright and safe future, she believes change is possible. According to her, “this is the best place on earth. Just bet on it.”
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - HD - 2015
THE STINGSOTTO COPERTURA
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - HD - 2014
FATHER DIANA, FOR MY EVERLOVING PEOPLEPER AMORE DEL MIO POPOLO - DON DIANADIRECTOR: Antonio FrazziStarring: Alessandro Preziosi, Massimiliano GalloDuring his life, Don Giuseppe Diana had fiercely opposed Camorra violence, which claimed the lives of many young people. He rejected Camorra donations to the church and, through a series of projects and documentaries, he involved local teenagers in his fight and provided a meeting space where they could discuss the problems of Casal di Principe. He was killed by the Camorra on 19th March 1994.C
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DIRECTOR: Alberto NegrinStarring: Luca Zingaretti, Lorenza Indovina
TV MOVIE - 100’ - HD - 2012
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - HD - 2013
The fifty-seven days between the death of Judges Falcone and Borsellino. During this time lapse Borsellino realizes his destiny and comes to terms with his life and affections. He takes stock of commitments, as a magistrate and as a man. Days of tenderness and love with his wife, children, colleagues and friends, fighting with enemies in broad daylight and in the obscure, who have already mapped out his end.
BORSELLINO, THE 57 DAYSPAOLO BORSELLINO, I 57 GIORNI
WHATEVER THE FUTURE MAY BEQUALUNQUE COSA SUCCEDADIRECTOR: Alberto NegrinStarring: Pierfrancesco Favino, Anita Caprioli“Whatever the future may be” tells the story of Italian attorney Giorgio Ambrosoli and his battle against criminal banker Michele Sindona, the man responsible for the financial crash of the Banca Privata Italiana. After years of hard work Ambrosoli succeeds in compensating the savers and investors who had lost their savings in the crash, but ends up paying with his life in 1979 at the hands of the Mafia. C
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CESARE MORI: THE IRON GOVERNORCESARE MORI: IL PREFETTO DI FERRODIRECTOR: Gianni LepreStarring: Vincent Perez, Gabriella PessionSicily, early ‘900s. The Commissioner Cesare Mori is the head of a special police squad. Fighting criminal gangs, fugitives and gangsters. His wife Angelina, a fragile woman is able to support him as well as the little Saro, their beloved adopted son, with whom they express their most loving and generous temper. His vigorous fight against the mafia and banditry lead him to be appointed to Mussolini’s Prefect of Palermo in 1924. When he retired, he was subsequently elected Senator of the Kingdom.
DIRECTORS: Andrea e Antonio FrazziStarring: Massimo Dapporto
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - 2006
This film is centered around the figure of Judge Giovanni Falcone, murdered alongside his full police escort by the Mafia while on his way to the Palermo airport. The film in two episodes begins with his assignment to the Prosecuting Office of the Court of Palermo, then proceeds with the great enquiries on the links between organized crime and politics. Tenaciously working together with Judge Borsellino and on a constant search for the truth, until the tragic day of the freeway bombing at Capaci, as his motorcade was on its way to the airport.
GIOVANNI FALCONE, THE JUDGEGIOVANNI FALCONE
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DIRECTOR: Alfredo PeyrettiStarring: Beppe Fiorell
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - 2006
In 1883, after countless rejected applications, Italian immigrant Joe Petrosino finally succeeds in entering New York City’s Irish dominated police force. His innovative approach in fighting the “Black Hand Mafia” gain him national fame. Then, while on special assignment in Sicily, he is killed in an ambush. More than three hundred thousand mourners attend his funeral.
JOE PETROSINO
DIRECTOR: Vincenzo VerdecchiStarring: Ugo Dighero
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - 2006
Emanuele Cirinnà, works in the shipyards of Palermo, as did his father before him. When he refused to ignore evidence of growing mafia infiltration, going public with his accusations, an initial period of popularity is followed by his firing.
MAFIA SIGNSA VOCE ALTA
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DIRECTOR: Claudio BoniventoStarring: Claudio Amendola, Veronica Pivetti
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - 2001
On May 23rd 1992, Totoí Riinaís Mafia clan kills Judge Giovanni Falcone in a bomb attack. The judge’s two most trusted friends, prosecutors Borsellino and De Gennaro, set out after the murderers. A special team of six investigators is formed in order to penetrate the Mafia underworld. Almost immediately they lose Borsellino to another bomb attack. De Gennaro the only one left, drives the squad on. In a spectacular operation, a bug is planted inside an apartment used by two clan members. The pair unwittingly lead to the arrest of the killers and the squad can savour their victory, for now.
HUNTING THE KILLERSATTENTATUNI
DIRECTOR: Giovanni FerraraStarring: Tosca D’Aquino, Mietta
MINISERIES - 2X100’ - 2001
This is the story of a group of courageous women, among them the protagonist Teresa, wife of a mafia boss, who finds the strength to say “enough” to the culture of violence and fear ruling their lives.
MAFIA WOMENDONNE DI MAFIA
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DIRECTORS: Damiano Damiani, Florestano Vancini, Luigi Perelli, Giacomo BattiatoStarring: Raoul Bova, Anja Kling, Patricia Millardet, Remo Girone, Ennio Fantastichini, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Michele Placido, Giuliana De Sio, Florinda BolkanStill today “Octopus” is considered to be one of the most successful Italian television series worldwide. With a 10 season arc, produced between 1984 and 2001, the series analyzes the tentacular insidiousness of organized crime involved in politics and public events during those years, much like an octopus. The context of the facts described reflect the current events of that period, allowing the viewer to better understand just how articulate and powerful the Mafia phenomenon is. The series won tremendous critical acclaim and had a succession of various directors and musicians of the highest caliber, such as Ennio Morricone, Ritz Ortolani e Paolo Buinvino.
OCTOPUSLA PIOVRA
TV SERIES - 10 SEASONS - 48 EPISODES - 1984/2001
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The sentimental and civil education of a boy, Arturo, born in Palermo the very same day the mafia boss Vito Ciancimino was elected mayor. An emotionally captivating, alternately humorous and heartrending tale of the mob’s pernicious influence in Sicily. Arthur’s life and first love experiences are marked by the tragic events of the Mafia between the ‘70s and the ‘90s. He’s a boy like many others in Italy during those years, but unlike his Northern peers, he’s forced to cope with the mafia’s deeply rooted infiltration and criminal activity in his city. This being the backdrop of this tender, but funny story with Flora, the love of his life.
FEATURE FILM - 90’ - HD - 2013
FEATURE FILMS
DIRECTOR: Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif Starring: Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif, Cristiana Capotondi
THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN SUMMERLA MAFIA UCCIDE SOLO D’ESTATE
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DIRECTOR: Marco RisiStarring: Libero De Rienzo, Michele Riondino
FEATURE FILM - 110’ HD - 2009
In 1985, at the age of 26, Giancarlo Siani was killed by the Neapolitan mafia. He was a reporter who loved both his life and his work, unfortunately he also loved digging up hard facts and investigating tough cases. The film deals with the last four months of his life, when he worked daily in the hellish territory over which the mafia boss Valentino Gionta reigned, leaving his refined and sophisticated neighborhood of Vomero.
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DIRECTOR: Roberto FaenzaStarring: Luca Zingaretti, Corrado Fortuna
FEATURE FILM - 90’- 2004
Father Giuseppe Puglisi, or Pino, was born in the same crime ridden neighborhood of Palermo where the Church sends him to work as a parish priest. He founded a center to take young people off the streets and keep them from joining the Mafia. He challenges the criminals from his pulpit. When they decide to do away with him, he greets his killers with a smile, saying, “I’ve been waiting for you”. The hardened outlaw who kills him, shaken by the experience, eventually turns against the Mafia and becomes a witness for the State.
COME INTO THE LIGHTALLA LUCE DEL SOLE
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DIRECTORS: Riccardo Iacona, Danilo Procaccianti, Fabrizio Lazzaretti
DOC FACTUAL - 110’ - 2014
An extraordinary investigation into the past 21 years of the last standing big Mafia bosses, Matteo Messina Denaro, who has yet to be brought to justice. Convicted to a life sentence for murders committed in 1993, he has since disappeared. The story of his role in the alleged State-Mafia negotiations and his close relationship with Totò Riina. The investigation into his immense assets that allowed the seizure of property for a value of over 4 billion euro, plus other law enforcement agencies strikes that gradually scorched the earth around him, until the dramatic arrest of her sister Patrizia. The story of Matteo Messina Denaro, the boss of Castelvetrano, with exclusive testimonies and previously unpublished documents.
THE LAST GODFATHER MATTEO MESSINA DENARO
DIRECTORS: Claudio Mariano Cirino, Paolo Santolini
DOC - 90’ - 2007
This docu-drama focuses on the last few months of Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano. Living for 43 years of his life as a fugitive from justice. Taped conversations of Mafiosi talking from their hideouts, eyewitness accounts of the police investigators, plus dramatic reenactments provide a description of the day-to-day Mafia life. For the very first time, Provenzano’s “mailmen” are shown exchanging “pizzini”, handwritten messages used by the head of Cosa Nostra to give orders.
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