Romanzo Criminale
Romanzo Criminale -- La serie - really is a tv series Italian based on the novel by estimate Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it's the next adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale headed by Michele Placido. The series immediately achieved cult status in Italy.
This could be the fiction series after Quo Vadis? Sky produced that and broadcast on Sky One, Fox Crime and in 2012 about Sky Arts with English sub titles.
The series is set in about 1977-89 and follows a group in Rome with a near monopoly of their city's heroin trade. Most of the characters use the Romanesco dialect. The group is led by three friends, Freddo, Libanese and Dandi.
Also as its internal feuding, the group has to deal with both the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that its own rebellion is supplied by both, law enforcement led by Commissioner Scialoja and the secret services. The plot line relies on the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.
Released: 2008-11-09