Black Octopus / El pulpo negro
Directed byMarta Reguera
Written byLuis Murillo
StarringNarciso Ibáñez Menta
Osvaldo Brandi
Héctor Biuchet
Music byArcana by Edgar Varèse
Production
company
Telearte Argentina
Distributed byCanal 9
Release date
1985
Running time
624 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Black Octopus (Spanish: 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

References

  1. Darío Billani interview at the Cinefania
  2. "Cómo era El pulpo negro: terror argentino, con el sello de Narciso Ibañez Menta". Multimedio Reporte 24 (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-08-30.
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