Rich Italian banking dynasty slaughtered by zodiac-obsessed killer. Ester's the bastard daughter who must solve it.
Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestA serial killer targets a rich family that owns a banking group and kills them through an astrological ritual scheme. He leaves behind mysterious messages from Nostradamus, which he signs with the symbol of the zodiac. It will be the illegitimate daughter of the head of the family, Ester -- with the help of a skeptical commissioner -- to unravel the mystery, untangling herself in a dense web of intrigues that hide behind the powerful and respectable family.
Production
Opulent Italian locations that reek of old money rot.
Writing
Dense family politics woven through astrological murder puzzles.
Antónia Lišková
Ester Musso
Massimo Poggio
Paolo Donati
Andrea Bosca
Matteo Rossi
Marco Cocci
Felice Minnisi
Valéria Cavalli
Elisabetta Genero in Santandrea
Vanni Corbellini
Pier Francesco Santandrea
Selvaggia Quattrini
Mariella Santandrea
Alberto Molinari
Massimo Parodi
José María Blanco
Gabriele Santandrea
Simone Gandolfo
Giacomo Santandrea
Gualtiero Burzi
Ispettore Spagnolo
Carolina Benvenga
Barbara Santandrea
Barbara De Nuntis
Lucilla
Saša Vulićević
Marco Fontana
Maria Monti
Vittoria Lanzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2008 miniseries format in Italian television was rare; this rode the coattails of international prestige crime dramas like The Killing.
Antónia Lišková, playing the half-Slovak Ester, was actually born in Slovakia—her casting subtly underscores the outsider-insider tension.
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