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Romanzo criminale(TV show/series, 2008-2010)

50min per episode | Genres: Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Scripted Reality in 2 seasons with 22 episodes

Romanzo criminaleRating: 4.1/5 (with 55 votes)
Romanzo criminale – La serie (pronounced [roˈmandzo krimiˈnaːle la ˈsɛːrje]; meaning "Criminal 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 Banda della Magliana, a 1970s criminal organization active in Rome led by three friends, Libanese, Freddo and Dandi, who attempted to merge local gangs in a mafia feud like sicilian and neapolitan organisations. Their history matched with right-wing terrorism groups, deviated secret service, masonic lodges and financial affairs. ()
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About Romanzo criminale

Follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Besides their internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services.

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Romanzo criminale Seasons and Episodes

11/18/2010Season 2 - 10 episodes
#1 | 11/18/2010Episode 1
Series two of the Italian Mob saga, and the Rome crew are in hysterical disarray. It's 1981: Libanese is in the morgue, full of holes, which means a race to find the killers and exact revenge before the police can make an arrest and spoil the party. It also means a power vacuum. Should sensible Freddo or hotheaded Dandi be the new boss?
#2 | 11/18/2010Episode 2
Roberta and Ice's relationship runs into trouble, while the gang wages a bloody battle to keep a rival cartel from gaining control of Rome's drug trade. In Italian.
#3 | 11/25/2010Episode 3
Internal tensions threaten to tear the gang apart as Bufalo and Dandi's mutual hatred grows stronger, while Scialoja investigates hefty financial transactions.
#4 | 11/25/2010Episode 4
The gang continues its bloody battle with the Sardinians, but the killing of a key player changes the direction of the conflict - and Ice decides to pay his rivals a visit. Meanwhile, Scialoja returns to the brothel for another meeting with Patrizia.
#5 | 12/02/2010Episode 5
As Italy celebrates victory in the 1982 World Cup, Scialoja discovers a vital clue in the search for Libano's killer. Meanwhile, the gang receives a tempting offer from Don Mimmo that could help tie up the drugs trade in Rome - but it becomes clear his services carry a heavy cost.
#6 | 12/02/2010Episode 6
Bufalo tries to plead insanity when he is charged with murder, and his plan looks set to succeed when he is sent to a crooked psychiatrist - until fate intervenes. Dandi discovers Patrizia has found a new career in an unexpected location, while Scrocchiazeppi cooks up a desperate plan to stave off his creditors.
#7 | 12/09/2010Episode 7
Freddo discovers the gun that killed Libano belonged to his own gang and realizes Bufalo and Ricotta killed the wrong person in revenge, prompting him to hunt down the traitor. He also finds out there is a rival drug ring in Rome after his brother overdoses on heroin and winds up in the hospital, while Commissioner Scialoja desperately tries to persuade Patrizia not to marry Dandi.
#8 | 12/09/2010Episode 8
Battling his demons in prison, Bufalo violently assaults a priest in the hope that he will be deemed insane and have his sentence reduced. Freddo joins him and Ricotta in jail following the attempted murder of Sorcio and Buffoni approaches them with a plan to get rid of all the traitors. Meanwhile, Dandi and Patrizia's relationship reaches rock bottom when he forbids her from seeing her friend Ranocchia, who she later discovers is dying in hospital.
#9 | 12/16/2010Episode 9
Sorcio gives up the names of Dandi, Freddo, Buffoni, Fierolochio and Scrocchiazeppi to the police and they all land in jail. Scialoja is worried at the trial as it all hangs on the testimony of a known heroin addict, while Dandi and Freddo each hatch a plan to ensure they will not spend their lives behind bars.
#10 | 12/16/2010Episode 10
It is now 1989 and Buffoni and Scrocchiazeppi are released from prison, but the realities of life back home hit them hard and they set about settling some old scores. Freddo leaves his hideout in Morocco and heads back to Rome after Buffoni kills his brother Gigio, while Scrocchiazeppi demands two billion lira from Dandi.
11/09/2008Season 1 - 12 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: Italy
Based on: "Romanzo Criminale" (find it on Amazon)
Made by: Cattleya, Sky TV
Original language: Italian (IT)
Spoken languages: Italian (IT)
Translated into 13 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 11/09/2008
Last episode released on: 12/16/2010
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Romanzo Criminale - La Serie"
"Crime Novel - The Series"

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