Romanzo Criminale
Romanzo Criminale -- La serie - is really a television set Italian based on the classic book by estimate Giancarlo De Cataldo, also it's the version of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The show immediately achieved cult status in Italy.
This is the fiction show later Quo Vadis, Baby? Sky produced that and broadcast on Sky One Fox Crime and in 2012 on Sky Arts together with English subtitles.
The show is set in approximately 1977-89 and follows a group in Rome that has a near monopoly of the heroin trade of the city. The Romanesco dialect is used by most of the characters. The group is directed by three older friends, Libanese, Freddo and also Dandi.
The group has to handle both the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that supply its own rebellion as well as the internal feuding, law enforcement headed by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services. The plot line relies on the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.
Released: 2008-11-09