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1. "The Sense of Touch". Alberto Sironi. Andrea Camilleri & Francesco Bruni & Salvatore De Mola. 28 October 2002. ( 2002-10-28) Montalbano investigates the death of Enea Silvio Piccolomini, a blind gentleman who died from an overdose of the medication he was taking. The story has unexpected consequences.
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 ...
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.
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 .
Rocco Schiavone is a widowed detective superintendent who has recently been transferred from his beloved Rome to Aosta in the Italian Alps for disciplinary reasons. While hating his new posting, Schiavone investigates crimes that disrupt the peaceful Aosta Valley, although he sometimes resorts to questionable methods when doing so.
The TV adaptation of Montalbano's adventures, starring Luca Zingaretti, further increased Camilleri's popularity to such a point that in 2003 Camilleri's home town, Porto Empedocle – on which Vigàta is modelled – took the extraordinary step of changing its official name to that of Porto Empedocle Vigàta, no doubt with an eye to capitalising on the tourism possibilities thrown up by the ...
Following “Gomorrah” and “The Young Pope,” Sky continues to bring to the screen fresh edgy TV series with “The King,” which is Italy’s first prison drama but transcends genre tropes ...
March 31, 2011. ( 2011-03-31) ' Il commissario Manara ( Commissioner Manara) is an Italian police procedural television series. It is a spin-off from the 2005 series, Una famiglia in giallo ('A Family in Yellow'). Like that earlier series, the show is a romantic comedy and police procedural. Guido Caprino plays the titular police officer, Luca ...