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• Corleone - The Complete Series - 6 DVD BOXSET | DVD | (30/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Corleone - The Complete Series (6 DVD Box Set) | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  As seen on Sky Arts and based on a true story. ´Corleone´ narrates the life of Totò Riina between 1943 and 1993. From a difficult adolescence to his rise to power within 'Cosa Nostra' passing via the many bloody episodes which saw his ascent. A story which starts when as an adolescent the future boss powerlessly witnesses the death of his father and younger brother in the explosion of a bomb leftover from the war. From that moment on he becomes the head of the family and will have to fight poverty. He creates a small group of extremely trusted followers with Provenzano and Bagarella he joins up with the most powerful criminals of Corleone who climbs the ladder towards mafia power first dominating Corleone then Palermo. These are extremely bloody events which see the conquering of power by means of unprecedented violence and hundreds of deaths. Only a childhood friend Biagio Schirò chooses another destiny that of becoming a police officer and undertaking the mission of routing his ex-companion in an extremely delicate role which will make him persecutor and pursued and will lead him to run enormous risks. Corleone´ is also the story of Riina's great enemies the martyrs who have fought the mafia to extreme consequences from the head of Police Mangano to Boris Giuliano the general Dalla Chiesa the judges Terranova Costa Falcone and Borsellino and the group of Captain Ultimo who on January 15 1993 will succeed in finding and arresting Totò Riina.

• Doctor Zhivago | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £6.32   |  Saving you £8.67 (137.18%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The mini-series treatment suits Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's sprawling novel of a Russian physician-poet whose comfortable life is upended by the revolution. And this near-four-hour Granada TV production lucidly demonstrates that Pasternak was one heck of a storyteller: the torment of Zhivago (Hans Matheson) as he must choose between his well-bred childhood sweetheart (Alexandra Maria Lara) and the tragically beautiful Lara (Keira Knightley) remains compelling. The TV treatment can't match the epic sweep of David Lean's feature film, of course, with its cast of thousands and astonishing production design. Devotees of that 1965 version will undoubtedly yearn for Maurice Jarre's tinkly hit "Lara's Theme", too; here, Ludovico Einaudi's score is serviceable by comparison. Matheson, too, is serviceable in the title role, but the uncannily gorgeous Knightley and a supremely decadent Sam Neill (as her dreadful seducer) keep their characters vital. The limitations of the small screen duly noted, the frosty location shooting is handsome. Given the choice, see the Lean film on the big screen every time; but this is a sturdy introduction to a classic story. --Robert Horton

• Piedras | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With a strong cast of Spanish stars Piedras is a pure reality bytes film. Following the story of five different women in Madrid all looking for a new start and a new chance in life - all leading seperate lives but their fates are soon entwined.