1971-1980 Italy Sci-Fi TV Vittorio Cottafavi

Vittorio Cottafavi – A come Andromeda (1972)

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A come Andromeda is an Italian TV miniseries in five hour-long parts, broadcast in 1972 on RAI, the Italian state broadcaster. It was directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and adapted by Inisero Cremaschi from the book by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, itself adapted from the BBC’s 1961 series A for Andromeda by the same authors, which is now mostly lost. It stars Luigi Vannucchi, Paola Pitagora, Tino Carraro and Nicoletta Rizzi, with performances from Arturo Dominici, Mario Piave, Claudio Cassinelli, Gabriella Giacobbe, Enzo Tarascio, Giampiero Albertini, Sandro Tuminelli and others.

Set in England, in the following year, it deals with the receipt, by a new, ultra-sensitive radio telescope, of a signal from the Andromeda Nebula (M31). The lead character, John Fleming (Luigi Vannucchi), a physicist and cybernetician, decodes the signal revealing it to be a message which details the plan for a new, advanced supercomputer. Meanwhile, events at the radio telescope are being monitored by various intelligence and counterintelligence organisations..

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Duration : 1h 2mn
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English .srt

Vittorio Cottafavi – A come Andromeda (1972)

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