The Octopus(1984)
The fight against the mafia!
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
- Created by:
- Nicola Badalucco, Lucio Battistrada
- First aired:
- 1984-03-11
- Country:
- IT
- Network:
- Rai 1, Rai 2
Episodes
1. The Killing Attempt
1992-11-30 · 106m
Police detective Davide Licata survives badly wounded, so much so that his personal and love life will be affected.
2. The Core
1992-12-06 · 98m
Licata is tempted by the General directing the Government's "nucleous of operations and investigations (NOI)", a secret service built to do the dirty anti-crime jobs that the police can't do.
3. The Man of the Letters
1992-12-07 · 101m
The hideout of Tani Cariddi in deep Africa becomes known - and again, the retired detective and the retired criminal must come to grips with violent action in Europe.
4. The Trap
1992-12-13 · 97m
Not one but several traps are set from both sides of the law.
5. Codename: West
1992-12-14 · 105m
A desperate chase is given by The Core and two countries magistrates to catch the new drug lords that are aiming at deluging drugs into Europe's Eastern countries from a former Nazi concentration camp in the West.
6. A Secret is Revealed
1992-12-20 · 114m
The detective exposes and destroys the man who secretively had taken the place of the octopus's head - but the crime will not stop, because the criminal's son escapes with enough power to restart it all.
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Cast
Patricia Millardet
Silvia Conti
Remo Girone
Tano Cariddi
Elena Arvigo
Giulia Mercuri
Rolf Hoppe
Prof. Ottavio Ramonte
Pippo Pattavina
Senatore Aldo Mercuri
Gilberto Idonea
Avvocato Edoardo Rittone
Arturo Paglia
Marco Rittone
Gabriele Bocciarelli
Vanya Marinoff
Giampiero Bianchi
Alfredo, marito di Silvia
Hedy Krissane
Hedy, domestico di Mercuri
