Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Luigi Perelli
A documentary about the birth of the palestinian liberation movement Al Fatah, lead by the young Yasser Arafat.
A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case.
In 1968, the Italian Communist Party sent director Luigi Perelli and chief operator Ferruccio Castronuovo to France to film the events of May. Announced by the voice of Léo Ferré singing L'Été 68 during a concert, the film's images trace the origin and development of the French student and workers movement during the months of May and June 1968.
The film tells the struggle of a woman against her ex-husband to have custody of their children. The first attempt to incapacitate ex husband to his wife and, when the ploy did not produce the desired effect, with the complicity of his children's nanny, kidnaps and takes them to Moldova. But the protagonist is not will give up and hire a detective for help in the search.
La Piovra is an acclaimed Italian Television drama miniseries about the Mafia. The story was by Sandro Petraglia. The production was designed by Luigi Perelli. The soundtrack was by Riz Ortolani and later by Ennio Morricone, who went on to compose music for several sequels. All 10 series have been released in Australia on DVD by Aztec International Entertainment, with English subtitles, having been originally aired on the Special Broadcasting Service television channel. It was also broadcast on MHz Networks in the United States. The first three series were shown in the UK on Channel 4. The TV drama was wildly successful in the USSR, where it appeared on state TV in 1986 and in Bulgaria, where is also appeared in the end of the 1980s bg:Октопод, offering to the viewers of both countries thrills and dark drama from beyond the Iron Curtain. La Piovra was also shown in 1987–1988 in communist Albania, where it became a huge hit and remains to date a cult film, whose characters and expressions have permeated culture, language and society.
For doctors “MARASMA” was a diagnosis: a state of deep organic deterioration, total loss of strength. In mental hospitals, people did not die of mental illness, but of marasmus. This is what the medical records say, which today reveal the most difficult stories: those of the last among the weakest, children and women. Through their testimonies we can also give voice to those who do not know, who do not want or can not remember.
