Between 1938 and 1948, from the height of Italy s Fascist regime to the end of the tumultuous post-war period, Chief Detective De Luca investigates and solves crimes in the City of Bologna and along the Adriatic coast. With little or no regard for those in power, whoever they happen to be, his solitary, uncompromising character often lands him in trouble, but his respect is reserved for the truth and justice alone.
In the four TV movies of the series Unauthorized Investigation , Carte Blanche , The Damned Season and Via Della Oche each taken from a novel by best-selling mystery Carlo Lucarelli Chief Detective De Luca always ultimately gets to the bottom of his cases, though what he finds leaves a bitter aftertaste.
Women's emancipation in the history of the Venetian Franza family, owners of a distillery in Bassano del Grappa. Management in the hands of the founder and patriarch of the family passed into the hands of the three daughters Maria Teresa, Elena and Sofia over a period of time from 1958 to 1985.
A bit like Italy’s answer to “Modern Family,” “Come Fai Sbagli” (“How to Do Wrong”) follows two families as they cope with modern life. The series is a perfect mixture of humor and drama, and it sums up what it’s like to raise children in today’s day and age, both the positive and negative sides of it.
Nora Telese is a psychiatrist who recently moved to San Benedetto del Tronto with her teenage daughter Camilla. Their life seems to flow serenely and Camilla meets Sonia, whith whom a unique and special friendship developes. One Saturday evening in May, the two girls go to a party and don’t return home. Their phones are unreachable and both girls seem to have disappeared into thin air. The prosecutor opens a file; Vice Quaestor Giovanni Nemi is in charge of the investigation; the case becomes increasingly complicated.
Laura, a young noblewoman who grew up in a convent, is given in marriage to the baron of Carini, an overbearing and lustful man. The life of the young baroness seems destined for unhappiness until she meets Luca Corbara, who arrives in the country to find his origins.
"questo nostro amore" narrates about the chronicles of the Costa and Strano families, living in Turin, from the '60s to the '80s, going thorugh all the social changes of those years.
Set in the middle of the 19th century, it's the story of a young Milanese girl, her unconventional boyfriend and her difficult relationship with her father.
Piero Angela talks about music through instruments and their virtuosos. Each episode brings together a family of instruments: piano and its surroundings; arches ; brass; reeds and stringed instruments.
Il Pianeta dei Dinosauri was a television documentary series, hosted by Piero and Alberto Angela in 1993, dedicated to the life of the Dinosaurs studied by the reconstructions, thanks to the co-production with Agip and the advice of Professor Dale Russell