MCLINC

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Donna Leon (Television program). Episodes 7 & 8.

Title:

The Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries. Episodes 7 & 8 [videorecording(DVD)] / TPI Trebitsch Produktion International for Degeto Film.

Edition:

Widescreen ed.

Publisher, Date:

[Virginia] : MHz Networks Home Entertainment, [2011]

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 2 hrs., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container.

Acqua alta : First a museum director and an antiquities dealer are murdered. Then a Chinese art expert is brutally beaten and she fears her assailants will return to finish her off. Brunetti must find out how greed and violence motivate the world of forgeries and could drive someone to kill for art in Venice.--Container.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Contents:

Quietly in their sleep / produced by Katharina M. Trebitsch, Nico Hofmann, Benjamin Benedict ; written by Renate Kampmann ; directed by Sigi Rothemund Acqua alta / produced by Benjamin Benedict, Katharina M. Trebitsch ; written by Kathrin Richter and Ralf Hertwig ; directed by Sigi Rothemund

Notes:

DVD ; region 1 ; NTSC ; anamorphic [widescreen] presentation ; 16:9 aspect ratio.

In German stereo ; with optional English subtitles.

Videodisc release of the 2004 and 2003 German television productions.

Based on the novels : Death of faith (apa, Quietly in their sleep), and Acqua alta / by Donna Leon.

Cast: Uwe Kockisch, Julia Jäger, Michael Degen, Karl Fischer, Annett Renneberg, Laura-Charlotte Syniawa, Patrick Diemling ; Quietly in their sleep : Suzanne von Borsody, Franziska Petri, Lambert Hamel, Christel Peters, Thomas Sarbacher, Kathrin Kuhnel ; Acqua alta : Rolf Hoppe, Hanns Zischler, Leslie Malton, Gesine Cukrowski, Gottfried John.

Cinematography, Dragan Rogulj ; editor, Darius Simaifar ; music, Stefan Schulzki (Quietly in their sleep), Robert Schulte Hemming (Acqua alta), Jens Langbein (Acqua alta) ; title music, André Rieu.

Not viewed.

Subjects:

Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character)

Opus Dei (Society)

Police -- Italy -- Venice

Murder -- Italy -- Venice

Art -- Forgeries -- Italy -- Venice

Venice (Italy)

Genre:

Foreign films.

Detective and mystery television programs.

Television adaptations.