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Television · 1997
The Octopus 8: The Scandal
La piovra 8 - Lo scandaloIn late 1950s Sicily, a reform-minded nobleman returns from America intent on modernizing his ancestral estates, only to collide with entrenched rural mafiosi who kidnap his young son to halt the project. A tenacious carabiniere lieutenant sent to investigate uncovers a ruthless power struggle within the syndicate while falling into a forbidden romance that sparks public scandal.
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The eighth installment of the 'La Piovra' saga is actually a two-part television film, the first of two chapters directed by Giacomo Battiato that leap back in time to 1950s Sicily. There we encounter a very young Tano Cariddi (played here by newcomer Primo Reggiani) and witness the origin of a legendary small-screen villain.
Antonio Genna on AntonioGenna.net Yet the camera perspectives on the faces, the rhythm of image sequences, the lighting, the editing—here one constantly finds fresh inventions and combinations. The core substance of these sagas represents the conservative soul of epic television; the cinematic form, when successful, constitutes its revolutionary temperament.
Barbara Sichtermann on Die Zeit A leap in time for the third-to-last chapter of La Piovra, which reunites with Raoul Bova (albeit in a different role) and unveils the origin and formative years of its longest-running character, Tano Cariddi.
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