THE BORGIAS (1981)
Directed by Brian Farnham

CAST: Adolfo Celi .... Rodrigo Borgia Oliver Cotton .... Cesare Borgia Anne-Louise Lambert .... Lucrezia Borgia Alfred Burke .... Giuliano della Rovere Arnold Diamond .... Cardinal Deacon Andrew Dunford .... King Charles VIII Norman Jones .... Cardinal Piccolomini John Karlsen .... Bishop Francesco Soderini Diana Katis .... Vasia Charles Kay .... Cardinal d'Amboise Michael Kilgarriff .... Cardinal San Severino Andrew King .... Juanito Amanda Kirby .... Charlotte d'Albret Esmond Knight .... Cradinal Gian Battista Orsini |  |

SYNOPSIS:
This series depicts the history of the infamous Borgia family of Renaissance Italy, which included many princes and even a Pope, and their lust for power.

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TRIVIA:
• The Borgias was a BBC mini-series intended to be as gripping a historical melodrama as I, Claudius (1976), but it did not share the same critical success.

LINKS:
http:// Teletronic.co.uk - The Borgias