Black Octopus Explained
| Black Octopus / El pulpo negro |
| Director: | Marta Reguera |
| Starring: | Narciso Ibáñez Menta
Osvaldo Brandi
Héctor Biuchet |
| Music: | Arcana by Edgar Varèse |
| Studio: | Telearte Argentina |
| Distributor: | Canal 9 |
| Runtime: | 624 minutes |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Language: | Spanish |
Black Octopus (Spanish; Castilian: El pulpo negro) is a 1985 Argentine TV mini-series (624 min) directed by Marta Reguera and written by Luis Murillo with Narciso Ibáñez Menta in the main role.[1] [2]
Plot
A mysterious writer of detective fiction blackmails four 'respectable' men with a criminal past to force them to murder a stranger at random. A small black octopus toy is left beside the corpse of the victims.
Cast
- Narciso Ibáñez Menta as Arturo Leblanc / Héctor de Rodas / Claudio Leonardi
- Osvaldo Brandi as Méndez
- Héctor Biuchet as Guevara
- Ariel Keller as Velázquez
- Juan Carlos Puppo as Duarte
- Beatriz Día Quiroga as Martha
- Tony Vilas as Armando
- Oscar Ferrigno as Police Inspector Alejandro Mendoza
- Juan Carlos Galván as Detective Marcos de la Hoz
- Erika Wallner as Eva Rinaldi
- Cristina Lemercier as Mara Salerno
- Wagner Mautone as Alfredo Heredia
- Zelmar Gueñol as mortuary manager
- Villanueva Cosse as Martín Gálvez
- Max Berliner as collaborator of a radio programme
- Alfredo Iglesias as Enrique Ferrante
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.cinefania.com/terroruniversal/index.php?id=183 Darío Billani interview at the Cinefania
- Web site: Cómo era El pulpo negro: terror argentino, con el sello de Narciso Ibañez Menta. 2020-08-30. Multimedio Reporte 24. es-es.
