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Giuseppe Lojacono, suspected of collusion with the mafia, is unfairly thrown out of from Sicily and send to Pizzofalcone (close to Naples), together with other police officers. There, they bring justice back where it was forgotten.
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Giuseppe Lojacono, suspected of collusion with the mafia, is unfairly thrown out of from Sicily and send to Pizzofalcone (close to Naples), together with other police officers. There, they bring justice back where it was forgotten.
Tango per la Libertà is a television miniseries broadcast on Rai1 on 12 and 13 January 2016. Freely inspired by Enrico Calamai's book No political asylum, it tells the story of an Italian diplomat in Argentina who managed to save more than 300 men and women persecuted by Jorge Rafael Videla's regime.
Palermo, 1979. The Giammarresi are a normal family — father, mother, a ten year old son and a daughter of sixteen — struggling with the problems of everyday life. Seemingly ordinary problems, oh, and the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. Inspired by Pierfrancesco “Pif” Diliberto's film.
Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.
The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.
Alice is a clumsy and passionate coroner resident. She fights between life and love complexities. Even tough she still has a lot to learn, she has a special quality: empathy with the victims that leads her to have crucial intuition in the cases that she works on.
Throughout the sixties and seventies, Boris Giuliano, a police officer of extraordinary ability, renewed the investigation system of the Palermo Mobile Unit and, through key investigations, reconstructed the secret structure and criminal activity of the Cosa Nostra, fundamental elements for the subsequent investigations of judges Falcone and Borsellino, which led to the 1986 maxiprocess.
A bit like Italy’s answer to “Modern Family,” “Come Fai Sbagli” (“How to Do Wrong”) follows two families as they cope with modern life. The series is a perfect mixture of humor and drama, and it sums up what it’s like to raise children in today’s day and age, both the positive and negative sides of it.
Follow Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan to find work--and much more--at a newly opened department store: The Ladies' Paradise.