Mafiosa

Mafiosa

Canal+ Ended Drama • Crime

5 Seasons · 40 Episodes · Premiered December 12, 2006 · Ended May 5, 2014

By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli (Hélène Fillières), is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality. Backed up by her brother, she learns how to assert herself in a very violent world. To rise to the occasion, the young woman will have to seduce, manipulate, and reinvent the clan in its own way. According to several media sources, the character Sandra is actually an adaptation of the current life of the Corsican widow Sandra Casanova-Germani whose brother Jean-Luc Germani is the most wanted man in France. The series contains violence and political schemes.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

8 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Tue, Dec 12 2006 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
In Corsica, after the murder of François Paoli, leader of one of the main clans of the island, a real and pitiless clan war is coming. Corsica, today. Lawyer at the Bastia bar, Sandra Paoli is the niece of François Paoli, a feared and respected clan chief of the island of beauty. Without really taking part in his uncle's affairs, she sometimes defends him when he needs it. One day, when they meet in a restaurant, Francois is assassinated: he pushes his last breath into Sandra's arms. Commissioner Roca of the judicial police and an American agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration are on the teeth: François Paoli has no direct descendant, the war of the clans is therefore open and promises to be ruthless ...
E02
Episode 2
Tue, Dec 12 2006 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Sandra took over as head of the clan. She takes the opportunity to bring home her mother, interned for years. The latter is mutic, schizophrenic ... Zamponi, a local elected official, proposes to Sandra and Jean-Michel a "coup": the theft of the jewels of the Empress Joséphine, exposed on the island. The case is dangerous, if not impossible, which is very pleasing to the brother and sister ... Rocca does not release his surveillance on the Paoli, especially since we have just found a certain Gio Sperandei, murdered in his car . Gio was among those who had refused to see Sandra reach the head of the clan. Rocca suspects the Paoli of being revenged ...
E03
Episode 3
Tue, Dec 19 2006 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Sandra shows her clandestine distillery to Charly Scaglia, an old friend of the family. Although he has a lot of tenderness for the young woman, he remains uncompromising in business ... Sandra collects a young girl tracked down by her pimps. She asks Jean-Michel to go up the chain. When she learns that the Leandri, another branch of the family, are involved in prostitution, Sandra is caught between the horror of the girl's destiny and her role as clan leader: avoiding a fratricidal war with The Leandri ...
E04
Episode 4
Tue, Dec 19 2006 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Sandra measures the difficulty of exercising his role as clan leader when Jean-Michel asks him for permission to eliminate an embarrassing witness, a man who risks harming one of the members of the clan by testifying in court. .. A criminal fire devastated an old building in the port belonging to the Paoli family, which rents the apartments at a ridiculously low price to ordinary people. Sandra discovers that behind the fire is a false real estate developer who seeks to build a luxury complex on the port. He is determined to force the Paoli ... Carmen, daughter of Jean-Michel, is abducted on the way to the school. The family is crank: who is behind this kidnapping?
E05
Episode 5
Tue, Dec 26 2006 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Sandra, who has taken her marks as a clan leader, has to face various assaults against the Paoli. Now is the time for her to prove her worth. A commando led a violent attack against a clandestine distillery of the Paoli clan. After the distillery, it is a laundry belonging to the Paoli which is sacked from top to bottom. Sandra assembled a Crisis Staff. Who is trying to destabilize the clan? It was then that Charly Scaglia appeared, decided to recover her financial stake in the distillery. Charly is ready for anything, including the involvement of the police. Zamponi, on his part, is worried: he has received death threats. Would the wind turn against the Paoli and their allies? It's time for Sandra to prove herself ...
E06
Episode 6
Tue, Dec 26 2006 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
A boxing room of the foundation François Paoli. Tonight, young hopefuls confront each other during rigged battles. Tino Marmara, supposed to hold nine rounds, falls to the fourth. He is shot down in the street, leaving the room ...
E07
Episode 7
Sun, Jan 7 2007 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
The village of Santa Castella, the stronghold of Zamponi, is in turmoil. The gendarmes seized the electoral registers. There is a fear of a rogatory commission and the contestation of the usual electoral fraud. Zamponi calls on Sandra to help: she has the ears of the nationalists and the authorities ... Sandra and Jean-Michel also have an urgent affair To carry on: to seize the cargo of weapons that the customs has just seized on a freighter The aim: an exchange against the drug of the famous Suleiman, come especially from the East for the occasion. ...
E08
Episode 8
Sun, Jan 7 2007 7:50 PM GMT+0000 50 min
Sandra enters politics. That changes the situation in the clan. From now on, she will have to keep a clean facade. At the moment when he feels dying, Ange-Marie, the father of François Paoli, entrusts to Sandra a heavy family secret ... Jean-Michel is about to finalize the drug weapons exchange with Suleiman, when Sandra gets essential information from one of his political "friends". Jean-Michel is in danger. If she warns him, she falls, and the clan with ...

Season 2

8 episodes

Season 3

8 episodes

Season 4

8 episodes

Season 5

8 episodes
Caroline Baehr
Caroline Baehr as Marie-Luce Paoli
Thierry Neuvic
Thierry Neuvic as Jean-Michel Paoli
Hélène Fillières
Hélène Fillières as Sandra Paoli
Claude Faraldo
Claude Faraldo as Ange-Marie Paoli
Daniel Duval
Daniel Duval as François Paoli
Erick Desmarestz
Erick Desmarestz as Président Larcher
Fabrizio Rongione
Fabrizio Rongione as Rémi Andreani
Jo Fondacci
Jo Fondacci as Simon Bianchini
Marisa Berenson
Marisa Berenson as Caterina Paoli
Patrick Dell'Isola
Patrick Dell'Isola as Commissaire Rocca
Phareelle Onoyan
Phareelle Onoyan as Carmen Paoli

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