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..

General
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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English .srt

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Francesco Rosi – Cadaveri eccellenti AKA Illustrious Corpses [24fps PAL restore] (1976)

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Plot (minor spoilers):
The film starts with the murder of Investigating Judge Vargas in Palermo, amongst a climate of demonstrations, strikes and political tension between the Left and the Christian Democratic government. The subsequent investigation failing, the police assign to the case Inspector Rogas (Lino Ventura), who has firm faith in the integrity of the judiciary. While he is starting his investigation, two further judges are killed. All victims turn out to have worked together on several cases. After Rogas discovers evidence of corruption surrounding the three government officials, he is encouraged by superiors nonetheless to trail the “crazy lunatic” who is murdering the judges. Rogas seeks three men who had been wrongfully convicted by the murdered judges. He is joined by a journalist friend working for a far-left newspaper.

Meanwhile another investigating judge is killed, and eyewitnesses see two young revolutionaries running away from the scene. Rogas, close to finding his man, is demoted, and told to work with the political division to pin the crimes on the revolutionary Leftist terrorist groups. Rogas discovers that his phone is tapped. He warns the Supreme Court’s president (Max von Sydow) that he is most likely to be the next victim. Music from a party in the same building leads to Rogas discovering the Minister of Justice (Fernando Rey) at the party with many revolutionary leaders, amongst them the editor of the revolutionary paper. There are further murders, and amongst rising tensions between revolutionaries and the government (which mobilises the army) Rogas himself is blamed for the murders by the chief of police.

1.72GB | 2h 0m | 1013×548 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A7EF209A5DF5A8F/Cadaveri_Eccellenti_(Illustrious_Corpses)_1976.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/E1817924B42AF7B/Cadaveri_Eccellenti_(Illustrious_Corpses)_1976.srt

Laguage:Italian
Subtitle:English

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