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The Inspector Montalbano ( Italian: Il commissario Montalbano [il kommisˈsaːrjo montalˈbaːno]) television series are Italian police procedural stories. Based on Andrea Camilleri 's detective novels, they are located in the imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily, which is based on Camilleri's native Porto Empedocle. The series star Salvo ...
Salvo Montalbano investigates the murder of Lapecora, a middle-aged accountant, found stabbed in the back in the lift of the building where he lived. Under questioning, the victim's widow bitterly accuses her husband's mistress, a beautiful Tunisian woman named Kherima, who vanished on the day of the murder, taking with her François, her six-year-old son.
Gender. Male. Occupation. Police detective. Nationality. Italian. Inspector [a] Salvo Montalbano is a fictional police chief who is a brilliant detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories. The books were written in a mixture of Italian, strict Sicilian, and Sicilian Italian .
The 'Ndrangheta ( / əndræŋˈɡɛtə /, [5] Italian: [nˈdraŋɡeta], Calabrian: [ (ɳ)ˈɖɽaɲɟɪta]) [a] is an Italian Mafia -type association [6] based in the peninsular region of Calabria and dating back to the 19th century. Although loosely structured, it is considered one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world. [7]
The Young Montalbano. The Young Montalbano ( Italian: Il giovane Montalbano) is an Italian television spin-off produced and broadcast by Radiotelevisione Italiana ( RAI) in 2012 and 2015. It is a prequel to the Inspector Montalbano ( Il commissario Montalbano) series that are based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri.
2. Luca Zingaretti ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈluːka ddziŋɡaˈretti]; born 11 November 1961) is an Italian actor and film director, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a native of Rome, and the older brother of politician ...
Inspector Montalbano may refer to: Inspector Montalbano; Salvo Montalbano, the eponymous character in the above TV series and an earlier series of novels and short stories; See also. Montalbano (disambiguation) The Young Montalbano, a prequel to the Inspector Montalbano TV series
Sicily ( Italian: Sicilia, pronounced [siˈtʃiːlja] ⓘ; Sicilian: Sicilia, pronounced [sɪˈ (t)ʃiːlja] ⓘ, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.