Romanzo criminale - La serie
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| Genre | Crime Drama |
| Screenplay by | Giancarlo De Cataldo (scriptement), Leonardo Valenti, Barbara Petronio and Daniele Cesarano |
| Directed by | Stefano Sollima |
| Starring |
Francesco Montanari Vinicio Marchioni Alessandro Roja Marco Bocci Daniela Virgilio Andrea Sartoretti Antonio Gerardi |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language(s) | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Running time | 50 minutes |
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| Original network | Sky Cinema 1 (Italy) |
| Original release | November 10, 2008 – December 16, 2010 |
Romanzo Criminale – La serie (pronounced [roˈmandzo krimiˈnale la ˈsɛːrje], meaning "Crime Novel – The Series") - is an Italian television series based on the novel of the same name by the judge Giancarlo De Cataldo. The series is an adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale (2005) directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved cult status in Italy.
This is the second fiction series after Quo Vadis, Baby? that was produced by Sky and broadcast on Fox Crime, Sky One and on Sky Arts with English subtitles in 2012.
The series is partially based on the story of the Banda della Magliana, a criminal organization most active in Rome in the late 1970s until the early 1990s. Most of the characters use the Romanesco dialect. The gang is led by three friends, Libanese (Francesco Montanari), Freddo (Vinicio Marchioni) and Dandi (Alessandro Roja).
As well as its internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja (Marco Bocci) and the Italian secret services. The plotline is partially based on real events concerning the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.
Series 1, Episode 1
The opening scene is in the Magliana district in present-day Rome: a middle-aged man is severely beaten and robbed of his wallet by three young thugs. After regaining his bearings the man walks towards an outdoor café (Italian: bar), finds the thugs and shoots their leader through the knee and then the face. The man cries out to the neighbourhood "I was with Libanese!"
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