Michele Placido
Commissario Corrado Cattani
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- 1. Season 1, Episode 1 Mar 11, 1984
- Cattani arrives in Palermo with the mandate to bring the Mafia under control.
- 2. Season 1, Episode 2 Mar 11, 1984
- Cattani befriends a heroin-addicted heiress.
- 3. Season 1, Episode 3 Mar 12, 1984
- Cattani's marriage collapses as he intensifies his fight against the Mafia.
With Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido, François Périer. An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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- 1984-03-11
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
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La Piovra (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈpjɔːvra]; English: The Octopus, referring to the Mafia) is an Italian television drama series about the Mafia.
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- March 11, 1984 –, January 11, 2001
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- RAI
The Octopus (La Piovra) was a global hit that ran from 1984 to 2001 and made a star of Michele Placido. This epic Mafia thriller explores the criminal culture that extends its tentacles into all of society and features a powerful and evocative score by Academy award winning composer Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso, The Good, The Bad and The ...
Michele Placido was born on 19 May 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995). He has been married to Federica Vincenti since 14 August 2012.
- Actor, Writer, Director
- May 19, 1946
- 2 min
He is known internationally for portraying police inspector Corrado Cattani on the crime drama television series La piovra (1984–2001). Placido's directorial debut, Pummarò , was screened Un Certain Regard at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival .
Apr 13, 2010 · In Series 1, Michele Placido stars as Chief Inspector Corrado Cattani, who arrives in Sicily full of resolve for the task of investigating a pair of high-profile murders. When the Mafia starts to push back, his convictions erode and he ends up compromising to save his life, and that of his family.
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"La Piovra 4", trasmessa in 6 puntate nel 1989, fu l'ultima stagione interpretata da Michele Placido nel ruolo del commissario Cattani. Le musiche sono firmate da Ennio Morricone. Regia: Damiano Damiani , Florestano Vancini , Luigi Perelli
