Rai 2

Sogni e bisogni

Quelli della notte - Il meglio di

I ragazzi della valle misteriosa

In a mysterious, isolated valley, a boy and his sister adopts prehistoric lifestyles to survive.

Cuore

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.

The Octopus

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

Western di cose nostre

"Western di cose nostre" (1984), from a short story of the same name by Leonardo Sciascia, is set in postwar Sicily: an unsuspected pharmacist played by Domenico Modugno inserts himself into a feud between Mafia gangs to take revenge on his rival in love. Directing the two episodes is Pino Passalacqua, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrea Camilleri and Antonio Saguera.

La Pimpa

Pimpa, a white female dog with red dots all over her body, who lives with her owner/father figure Armando, a plump moustached man who treats her like a daughter. Every day Pimpa goes through new adventures wheter it's in her house's surroundings or all over the world, or even in space, meeting old friends and making newers.

Images from Fascism: All the Duce's Men

1982 documentary about the Italian Fascist regime by Nicola Caracciolo

Le rose di Danzica

Extended miniseries version of the Italian theatrical film.

Millemilioni

Vita di Antonio Gramsci

The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the birth of the Italian Communist Party (PCd'I), Gramsci's visits to Moscow where he met his future spouse, his election to Parliament, anti-fascism, trial and conviction.

Mixer

An italian talk show about current affairs

Magister Flykt

Bel Ami

Morte a passo di valzer

Italian TV adaptation of John Dickson Carr's mystery novel Fire, Burn! (1957).

The Little King

1976 documentary by Nicola Caracciolo about the life of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III

I Vecchi E I Giovani

It is the Sicily of the bloody uprisings of the Fasci Siciliani in 1893, shaken by class struggles, with the clerics on one side, intent on preventing the consolidation of the new liberal regime, and the ruling class on the other, squandering the sacrifices and merits acquired in moral disorder.

What Is to Be Done?

Italian TV mini series

Stryx

Stryx was an Italian TV series, aired in 1978 on Rai Due. Stryx thematically referred to Hell, devils and underworld. The scenography featured elements resembling Middle Ages-like gloomy castles and caves. The show featured acting as well as musical performances from such artists as Amanda Lear, Asha Puthli, Grace Jones, Patty Pravo, Mia Martini, Angelo Branduardi and The Rockets.

Madame Bovary

Italian adaptation of the novel by Gustave Flaubert, starring Carla Gravina and Paolo Bonacelli as Emma and Charles Bovary. Originally aired in 1978.