Giancomo Battiato

The Pact - Through the adolescent eyes of Tano Cariddi, who is growing up in Sicily in the 1950's, we see the story of the Altamura family, landowners from USA who return to revisit their homeland. Their life soon turns into a nightmare, when their so...

The Octopus - Series 08 (1997)

Giancomo Battiato

Michele Placido

Foreign, Television, TV Drama, Italian

Baroness Barbara Altamura is investigating the shady dealings between her husband's bank and the Mafia. She has a series of secret liasons with the captain Carlo Arcuti, her one time lover, in order to pass on the information and gradually the smolder...

The Octopus - Series 09 (1997)

Giancomo Battiato

Michele Placido

Foreign, Television, TV Drama, Italian

We return to find an ageing and solitary Tano Cariddi in his hideaway on the slopes of Mount Etna, where we left him at the end of Octopus Series 7. He is tormented at night by his past: his mother, father, sister, wife, lost loves and villainy are the no...

The Octopus - Series 10 (2001)

Giancomo Battiato

Michele Placido

Foreign, Television, TV Drama, Italian

1930s' Poland. 10-year-old Karol Wojtyla has dreams, many dreams. One by one they are shattered. First, by the loss of his beloved mother and brother. Then, by the outbreak of the war and the death-fleeing human exodus which ensued. And finally, by the ...

Karol - A Man Who Became Pope (2005)

Giancomo Battiato

Ken Duken,Piotr Adamczyk,Malgorzata Bela

Foreign,General Foreign,Biography,Drama

Karol II tells the story of Jean Paul II - one of the most recognised and loved Popes in history. It is an account of his life from the time he was elected Pope until he died in 2005. An intimate story of the first man from a country behind the Iron Curt...

Karol II - The Pope The Man (2006)

Giancomo Battiato

Piotr Adamczyk,Adriana Asti,Michele Placido,Dariusz Kwasnik,Alberto Cracco,Ken Duken,Malgorzata Bela

Biography,General Foreign,Foreign,Drama