This is a list of Italian television related events from 1986.
Debuts
Fininvest
Variety
* ''Cabaret per una notte'' – television version of the
Loano Cabaret festival; 3 seasons. The show reveals to the general public the duo
Aldo and Giovanni (not again teamed up with Giacomo), winners of the first edition.
Television shows
RAI
Miniseries
* ''Attentato al papa'' (Shooting the pope) – by Giuseppe Fina, in two episodes; reconstruction of the
attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, following the theory (not confirmed by the enquiries) of the Bulgarian connection.
Christopher Bucholz gives an amazing performance as
Mehmet Ali Ağca, thanks in part to his physical resemblance to the failed assassin.
*''
La piovra 2'' – by
Florestano Vancini, with
Michele Placido,
Sergio Fantoni,
Martin Balsam and
Francois Perier; 6 episodes. Follow-up of ''La piovra''; the focus moves from the Mafia in the strict sense to its accomplices in
deviated Freemasonry and State apparatus.
*''
La storia
''History: A Novel'' ( it, La Storia) is a novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, generally regarded as her most famous and controversial work. Published in 1974, it narrates the story of a partly Jewish woman, Ida Ramundo, and her two sons Anton ...
'' (
History) – by
Luigi Comencini, from the
Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante (; 18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel '' La storia'' (''History'') is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time.
Life a ...
’s novel, with
Claudia Cardinale; 3 episodes.
*''
Naso di cane
''Naso di cane'' (also known as ''A Dog's Nose'') is a 1986 Italian crime-drama television miniseries, written and directed by Pasquale Squitieri and starring Luca De Filippo. It is loosely based on a novel of the same name written by Attilio Ver ...
'' (Dog nose) – by
Pasquale Squitieri
Pasquale Squitieri (27 November 1938 – 18 February 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Naples, Squitieri graduated in law, then was briefly involved in stage, as author ("''La battaglia''") and even a ...
, with Nigel Bruce,
Luca De Filippo
Luca De Filippo (3 June 1948 – 27 November 2015) was an Italian actor and director of theatre. De Filippo was born in Rome to Eduardo De Filippo and the singer and actress Thea Prandi. He married Carolina Rosi, the daughter of director Francesc ...
and
Claudia Cardinale, from the
Attilio Veraldi
Attilio Veraldi (1925–1999) was an Italian novelist and translator.
Biography
Born in Naples, Veraldi started his career as a translator of hardboiled American novels. He made his writing debut in 1976, with the giallo
In Italian cinema, ...
’s novel; in 3 episodes. Firsti TV fiction about the
; in Naples, a killer and a police chief are adversaries and at the same time friends, till both die in a shooting.
News and educational
*''Il coraggio e la pietà'' (Courage and pity) – enquiry by Nicola Caracciolo about the
racial laws
Anti-Jewish laws have been a common occurrence throughout Jewish history. Examples of such laws include special Jewish quotas, Jewish taxes and Disabilities (Jewish), Jewish "disabilities".
Some were adopted in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany ...
and the
Holocaust in Italy; 3 episodes.
Fininvest
Serials
* ''
Love me Licia
''Love me Licia'' is an Italian television series. It is the first of the four live adaptations of the Japanese manga ''Ai Shite Knight'' (known in Italy as ''Kiss Me Licia''). Its sequels are ''Licia dolce Licia'', '' Teneramente Licia'', and ' ...
'', with
Cristina D’Avena and Pasquale Finicelli; live adaptation of the manga ''
Ai Shite Knight''. Infamous as an example of TV kitsch, it gets however a good success among the younger viewiers.
References
{{Years in TV by country, 1986, state=Italy
1986 in Italian television