Private Crimes (Delitti privati) is a 1993 Italian mystery mini television series directed by

Sergio Martino Sergio Martino (born 19 July 1938) is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre. Martino is the brother of the late producer Luciano Martino (who died in 2013). They collaborated frequently in their ...

Plot

The story, set in Lucca, sees the death of a businessman, Marco Pierboni, killed in the garden of his villa outside the city, even if the body is found near the factory who ran while a young girl studying in a conservatory, Sandra Durani, disappears and is later found dead near the bank of the river Serchio as a witness of the murder. At the same time begin to circulate in the city a series of anonymous letters, creating a climate of suspicion in the investigation that involves some people who direct and those who only marginally so far were above all suspicion, and even a third is killed person, Paolo Roversi, a friend of Sandra who was looking for items to be acquitted of double murder. In response to these crimes Nicole Venturi, a French journalist and mother of Sandra, follow closely with colleague Andrea Baresi the survey coordinated by the Police Commissioner Stefano Avanzo and begins to be idea about the identity of the murderer until you get to see a sad truth to kill the daughter and the contractor was severe Scali, villa Pierboni's governess and best friend of Nicole, to avenge the death of daughter Nina, who committed suicide because it ignores Marco Pierboni with whom she had an affair, while the third murder committed by the housekeeper, too, was due to the fact that Paolo Roversi had suspected something about the theft of paintings took place in the villa outside the city. Immediately after the confession of severity, Nicole will also discover the author of anonymous letters, ten in all, except the last, written by Dr. Guido Braschi in a desperate attempt to save another pain to Matilde Pierboni the other nine letters were indeed written by Filippo Pierboni, the son of the entrepreneur, who tries to commit suicide out of despair, without success. In the final scene, Nicole's friend greets commissioner before leaving Lucca and boards the train while the two promise each other that sooner or later they would meet again.

Cast

Edwige Fenech Edwige Fenech (, ; born 24 December 1948) is an Algerian-born Maltese-Sicilian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' and ''giallo'' films released in the 1970s, which turned her ...

as Nicole Venturi * Ray Lovelock as Inspector Stefano Avanza * Manuel Bandera as Andrea Baresi * Victoria Vera as Anna Selpi *

Gudrun Landgrebe Gudrun Landgrebe (; born 20 June 1950) is a German actress. Landgrebe was born in Göttingen, grew up in Bochum, and attended theatre school in Cologne from 1968 until 1971. In 1971 she made her debut at Stadttheater Bielefeld. She also appea ...

as Daniela Pierboni *

Maja Maranow Maja Maranow (20 March 1961 – 4 January 2016) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 60 films and television shows between 1983 and 2016. On January 4, 2016, Maranow died of breast cancer in Berlin, aged 54.Lorenzo Flaherty Lorenzo Flaherty (born 24 November 1967) is an Italian actor. He is the son of an Irish father and an Italian mother. He has appeared in more than forty films since 1986. Selected filmography References External links * 1967 births ...

as Paolo Roversi * Joe Kloenne as Marco Pierboni *

Annie Girardot Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 193128 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women und ...

as Ada Roversi *

Paolo Malco Paolo Malco (born 10 April 1947) is an Italian film actor, best known for his roles in horror films, and later in many Italian TV mini-series. From 1998 to 2006 he was cast in the drama ''Incantesimo''. Filmography *1973: ''Number one'' - ...

as Massimo Pierboni *

Cinzia De Ponti Cinzia Fiordeponti, best known as Cinzia De Ponti (born 3 October 1960), is an Italian actress, model, television personality and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Italia 1979 and second runner-up to Miss Universe 1982. Life and ...

as Magistrate Castelli * Carlo Cartier as Franco Martelli * Stefano Nosei * Davide Bechini as Filippo Pierboni * Silvia Mocci as Chiara Malvini * Néstor Garay as lawyer Portili *

Carlo Monni Carlo Monni (23 October 1943 – 19 May 2013) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. Born in Campi Bisenzio, Florence, Monni started his artistic activity in early seventies, as an actor in the Tuscan vernacular comic theater. Afte ...

as Paolo's father * Giovanni Visentin *

Vittoria Belvedere Vittoria Belvedere (born 17 January 1972) is an Italian actress from Vibo Valentia in Calabria, southern Italy. She has appeared in several films but most of her work is television based. Career In 1992, she made her debut in the film ''In came ...

as Sandra Durani *

Laurent Terzieff Laurent Terzieff (27 June 1935, in Toulouse – 2 July 2010, in Paris) was a French actor. Biography Terzieff was the son of French ceramist Jacques Perrin Jacques Perrin (born Jacques André Simonet; 13 July 1941 – 21 April 2022) was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Early life Jacques André Simonet was born on the Boulevard Port-Royal in P ...

as Roberto Durani *

Gabriele Ferzetti Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. Ferzetti's first leading role ...

as Dr. Guido Braschi *

Alida Valli Alida Maria Laura, ''Freiin'' Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), better known by her stage name Alida Valli (or simply Valli), was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, s ...

as Matilde Pierboni

External links

*{{IMDb title, id=0103398, name=Private Crimes 1993 Italian television series debuts 1993 Italian television series endings Italian drama television series 1990s Italian television series Films directed by Sergio Martino