MONTHLY GUIDE JANUARY 2019 | ISSUE 114 | PACIFIC PERVERSION EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | JANUARY 2018 | 1 SEASON every Tuesday • 5:30 PM ET/ 2:30 PM PT 2 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | JANUARY 2019 | SEASON MONTHLY GUIDE | JANUARY 2019 | ISSUE 113 Perversion PERVERSION Mafia Undercover It is the beginning of a new year and Eurochannel will be offering you plenty of surprises throughout 2019, with the greatest actors and filmmakers from all over Europe! In January, we commence the year with a premium selection of award-winning productions from Italy and France. To start 2019, we are proud to premiere two thrillers seething with fantasy and suspense. From Italy, Perversion follows the story of a police officer Full Disclosure investigating the murder of an upper-class escort. He soon falls into the darkest side of Roma’s nightlife, plummeting in a spiral of danger and risky sex, dragging his girlfriend along. TABLE OF Also this month, the action series, Mafia Undercover, reaches its season CONTENTS finale. As Marco Solo tries to keep hidden his cop identity from the mafia clan, he struggles to keep doing the right thing while straddling the line between crime and the law. 4 Highlights 10 Week 1 Last but not least, in January, do not miss the premiere of Full Disclosure’s new season! Many years have passed since Pietro’s kidnapping but now the 12 Week 2 family is facing yet another new challenge from those who want to destroy 14 Week 3 them! 16 Week 4 EUROCHANNEL GUIDE PUBLISHED BY Eurochannel, Inc. EDITOR IN CHIEF Javier Pardo Barreto EDITORS Anna Oboza, Florence Razimbaud, Cristina Silva, Zheljko Kojchic & Ismail Dibirov. ARTWORK Cristina Tejada EUROCHANNEL, INC. 235 Lincoln Road # 212 | Miami Beach, FL 33139 every Tuesday • 5:30 PM ET/ 2:30 PM PT Gustavo Vainstein +1-(305)-531-1315 | www.eurochannel.com Eurochannel’s CEO ©2018 | All pictures rights are reserved. After a girl is murdered, a young police inspector plunges into the darkest and most immoral side of Roma’s nightlife. He wants to solve the case, but soon enough finds himself immersed in a web of lust, sex and crime. Eurochannel premieres Perversion, an Italian drama which will leave you wanting more! Perversion is a journey through lust and the murkiest side of the human desires! This engaging drama follows the investigation of a vicious murder, when an upper-class escort is found in an apartment by the sea, bound and beaten following kinky sex. The officer in charge of the case, Detective Luca Mocci, and his girlfriend have just moved to a new apartment and are planning a happy life. However, Mocci’s enquiries soon verge on obsession, leading him to play a perverse game into which he also drags his girlfriend. In this intense drama, viewers will enter a dark world of prostitution, swinging and crime. As the detective’s investigation develops, he frequents other escorts, sex clubs, and streets where men and women let their partners have sex with strangers just for pleasure. Blending the best of giallo, noir and a bit of Pasolini’s touch, award-winning director Roberta Torre delivers a unique and original story of crime in Rome, praised by the press and critics upon release. Perversion was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival. PREMIERE: CINEMA January 31st 6:30 PM PERVERSION Italy Don’t play with her fire, for you might burn alive 4 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | JANUARY 2019 | 3 ESSENTIAL GIALLO MOVIES YOU SHOULD SEE Among aficionados of cult cinema, the Italian genre, Giallo, stands as an alternative to formulaic American thrillers. These films feature very specific characteristics that CAST Luigi Lo Cascio, Anna set them apart from “respectable cinema,” such as suspense, deliberate nudity, and Mouglalis, Maurizio Donadoni DIRECTOR Roberta Torre gallons of blood. Celebrating the airing of the Italian thriller, Perversion, we have GENRE Drama selected three essential giallo films you should see at least once. ORIGINAL TITLE Mare Nero Year 2006 BLOOD AND BLACK LACE Also known as Six Women for the Murderer, this is the quintessential giallo movie! Made in 1964 by Mario Bava, Blood and Black Lace has been so influential that one can trace its impact on filmmakers like Dario Argento, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Wes Craven. The story follows Isabella, a beautiful model employed at a fashion house who is violently killed by an assailant wearing a featureless white mask. Police starts investigating the murder and when Isabella’s diary is found, everyone in the gallery become nervous; they all have forbidding secrets. A BAY OF BLOOD Considered one of the bloodiest and most violent giallo films in history, A Bay of Blood tells the story of Countess Federica as she is attacked and strangled to death by her husband, who then is murdered. It is believed to be a suicide. Their heirs show up, as well as a group of young people on vacation, and the murderer is ready to kill all of them. The movie’s emphasis on graphically bloody murder set pieces was hugely influential on the slasher film subgenre that would follow a decade later. In 2005, the magazine Total Film named A Bay of Blood one of the 50 greatest horror films of all time. THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE Directed by the one and only Dario Argento in his directorial debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Investigating the death of follows Sam Dalmas, an American writer living in a young woman, a police Rome with his model girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall). inspector finds himself He is suffering from writer’s block, and wants to go exploring the torrid and back to the U.S., but he witnesses an attempted mysterious side of Roma’s night murder by a serial killer who is hunting young girls. life. This investigation will end Sam is determined to find out who the killer is. up becoming an obsession, causing him to even drag his Argento wrote the script with Fredric Brown’s novel, The Screaming Mimi, in mind. own companion into a perverse Not only was the movie a commercial success, it was nominated for an Edgar Allan game . Poe award for best motion picture in 1971. EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | JANUARY 2018 | 5 NEW EPISODES! Italy People will do anything just for love While living the perfect dream, a family’s tranquillity is CAST Antonia Liskova, Kaspar Kapparoni, Massimo PoggioFerranti, Martina Stella, shattered by the kidnapping of their father. His wife, Elena, Giulio Berruti who was abducted many years ago, is now in a tooth-and- GENRE Drama, thriller nail fight against crime, the mob and her past. Eurochannel ORIGINAL TITLE Solo per Amore invites you to discover the dark side of love in its new series: Year 2014 - 2016 Full Disclosure! EPisodes 4 6 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | JANUARY 2019 | S1 E7: January 1St • 4:00 PM DISCOVER THE NEW LIVES OF Giordano (Kaspar Capparoni) successfully undergoes surgery after the shooting and Elena (Antonia Liskova) invites him to stay F ULL DI SCLOSU RE WHO ARE THE at her home. Pietro (Massimo Poggio) has a secret meeting with his daughter CENTRAL CHARACTERS OF THE NEW SEASON? and later finds out that Giordano is As Eurochannel premieres the new season of Full Disclosure, we invite you responsible for killing Elena’s father. to discover the main characters and their influence on this riveting story of love. ELENA FERRANTE (ANTONIA LISKOVA) S1 E8: January 8th • 4:00 PM Elena Ferrante was the protagonist Giordano (Kaspar Capparoni) tries to kill of the first season, when she was Pietro (Massimo Poggio) but he survives. idealistic, strong, and generous. Now an Elena (Antonia Liskova) has a meeting accomplished woman and mother, she with Silvia (Valeria Milillo), Stefano’s ill lives with Peter, the man she now loves mother, who tells her the truth: Stefano and with whom she has finally found is actually Elena’s son. During an attempt peace. Sadly, one day, fate takes him away to escape the hospital, Silvia falls from in the most ironic way, in an apparently the balcony and dies. casual accident ― appearances, however, soon begin to show cracks and Elena will have to find the energy and time to fight S1 E9: January 15th • 4:00 PM mourning, discover the truth, and reopen Elena (Antonia Liskova) is arrested for her heart to a new feeling. the death of Silvia Nardi (Valeria Milillo). Pietro (Massimo Poggio) and Claudio (Lorenzo Balducci) make a plan to set her GIORDANO TESTA (KASPAR CAPPARONI) free. Giordano (Kaspar Capparoni) invites Giordano Testa is the man who has lost Stefano (Giuseppe Maggio) to stay at his Elena’s love for the sins of his past. After home and persuades him to take revenge many years, he is now locked up in a on Pietro. prison, serving his sentence. The very few things that keep him going are visits from his daughter, Giulia, and the determination S1 E10: January 22nd • 4:00 PM to show that he has changed. Giordano Arianna (Laura Adriani) is about to be still loves Elena but is aware that she will killed by the men sent by Fiore (Luca never be able to return those feelings. Biagini). Pietro (Massimo Poggio) has Her forgiveness would be enough and, in seen everything from Gloria’s house and the course of this new season, he will do is rushing home. But Stefano beats him anything to get it. to it and courageously rushes into the house to save Arianna. GLORIA KELLER (VALENTINA CERVI) Gloria managed to escape to America S2 E1: January 29th • 4:00 PM thanks to the support of the powerful Elena (Antonia Liskova), with great General Fiore.