Comes the Original, Most Notorious Crime Family

From the Creator of HBO’s “Oz”

Comes The Original, Most Notorious Crime Family

BORGIA FAITH AND FEAR:

Season ONe

Street Date: 2/21/12

3-Disc DVD SRP: $39.98

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Before The Mafia, there were The Borgia. Packed with drama, intrigue and lawlessness, Lionsgate debuts Borgia Faith and Fear Season One on DVD and Digital Download this February. The international series, created and executive produced by three-time Emmy® winning drama veteran Tom Fontana*, stars John Doman (HBO’s “The Wire”) as Rodrigo Borgia, a Renaissance-era pope who is on the quest for ultimate power. The complete first season features all 12 gripping one-hour episodes as a three-disc set. Borgia Faith and Fear: Season One, including a “making of” featurette and the “Borgia Diaries” – cast and crew interviews, will be available on February 21st, for the suggested retail price of $39.98.

In the era of Da Vinci and Michelangelo, enlightened creativity and unparalleled intellectual achievement, rampant lawlessness and incessant war also reigned. A crime family emerged and would open the most infamous chapter in the history of the Catholic Church. In the center of the story is Rodrigo Borgia – pope and ruthless dictator, on a quest for power and the ultimate prize, the Chair of Saint Peter.

* Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Drama Series, TV’s "Homicide: Life on the Street," 2003; Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, TV’s "St. Elsewhere," 1986, 1984

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*

· “The Making of Borgia Faith and Fear” featurette

· Borgia Diaries: Cast and Crew Interviews

*Subject to change

CREATOR
Tom Fontana HBO’s “You Don’t Know Jack,” Anytown, USA, HBO’s “Oz,” TV’s

“Homicide: Life on the Street,” TV’s “St. Elsewhere”

CAST

John Doman TV’s “Rizzoli & Isles,” Blue Valentine, TV’s “Damages,” HBO’s “The Wire,” Mystic River

Mark Ryder Robin Hood

Stanley Weber TV’s “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”

Isolda Dychauk Faust, TV’s “Unsere Farm in Irland,” TV’s Stille Post

Marta Gastini The Rite, TV’s “Il bene e il male”

Diarmuid Noyes Showtime’s “The Tudors,” Five Minutes in Heaven

Andrea Sawatzki Shattered Glass, TV’s “Faust”

Art Malik TV’s “Upstairs Downstairs,” The Wolfman, True Lies, The Living Daylights

Assumpta Serna The Craft, Bullfighter

Christian McKay Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Me and Orson Welles

Scott Winters TV’s “24,” TV’s “NYPD Blue,” Good Will Hunting

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Year of Production: 2011

Type: TV on DVD

Rating: Not rated

Genre: Drama, Foreign

Closed Captioned: English

Subtitles: N/A

Format: 16x9 Widescreen

Feature Running Time: 675 minutes

DVD Audio Status: 5.1 Dolby Digital

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