D.on Matteoone of the most popular Rai fictions by the public, returns tonight (at 21.25 on Rai 1) and the news are many. First of all, the time has come for goodbyes for the beloved Terence Hill, in the role of the priest-detective, who will leave the series in the fifth episode of the thirteenth season. His friend will take his place Don Massimo, alias Raoul Bova. How will aficionados take it? The new character will be able to fill the void of Don Matteo and to forge that relationship with the public that has brought extraordinary audience results by tapping the 15 million viewers (was it 2016)?
Don Matteo 13: previews and news
But they are different Announcements this season, starting with the same Don Matteo: we will see him struggling with a wound that will force him to reflect on his being a spiritual father and to deal with the emotions he had always tamed: pain, anger and a sense of helplessness.
In the first episode the priest will find the young woman’s body at the end of the Tre Croci bridge in Spoleto Sara Rivahis goddaughter whom he has known since the age of 6 and who he wanted to become nun. What happened? Is it suicide or murder? Don Matteo on the day of his fortieth anniversary of priesthood is upset. Thus begins to investigate himself and Sara’s death. Meanwhile Spoleto comes alive to celebrate it.
The new characters, starting with Don Massimo
The most striking news, however, is the arrival of Don Massimo (Raoul Bova), dear friend of Don Matteo. How will it be welcomed by the Marshal Cecchini (Nino Frassica), by the Captain Anna (Maria Chiara Giannetta), from Marco (Maurizio Lastrico) and Natalina (Nathalie Guetta)? “In the beginning as an enemy – said Frassica – then he will earn our affection”.
Maximum he is a priest in his first position in a parish. It has a mysterious past and he will have to deal not only with the difficulties of others, but above all with his own. “From a young age he fought for justice following important ideals, then he found the priesthood on his way thanks to the meeting with Don Matteo », explains Bova. And he underlines: «The lonely one Don Massimo does not replace Don Matteohe will try to evolve the series by continuing in his footsteps ».
Terence Hill and Raoul Bova in Don Matteo
Valentina, daughter of Colonel Anceschi
Then there is Emma Valenti who interprets Valentinadaughter of Colonel Anceschi (Flavio Insinna) and Cecchini’s goddaughter, who moves to Spoleto to try to get her life back on its feet. Valentina hides a wound, a secret that wears her outas well as having relationship difficulties with his father, who is always very rigid and anaffective.
They think about helping her the “uncle” Cecchini and Nardi who will rediscover the sides of himself that he did not remember having and that perhaps are the very ones that made him fall in love Anna.
Emma Valenti (IPA)
The rebel Federico Limoni
Don Matteo welcomes in the rectory Federico Limoni (Mattia Teruzzi), a seventeen year old with a difficult past behind him: abandoned by his mother all she wants is to take care of her brother Clementine, a newborn of a few months. Thanks to the meeting with Don Matteo – but also with Greta a classmate of hers who has a complicated childhood behind her – this disheartened, angry and short-tempered boy he will learn to manage his emotions.
Emma Valenti, Mattia Teruzzi, Giorgia Agata in Don Matteo 13.
The good girl Greta Alunni
Greta Alunni (Giorgia Agata) is the classic good girl who find it hard to be guided by instinct. He is the opposite of Federico. But perhaps in each other they will find what they need. Greta will learn to enjoy her age a little more, to come out of its shell and come to terms with the past. Because she too, in reality, hides a deep inside painful secret that will come back to the surface.
The historical characters of Don Matteo
Antonio Cecchini (Nino Frassica)
He is Don Matteo’s closest friend and as such for 22 years he has never skipped an episode of the fiction. Antonio is increasingly connected with the actor who plays him: he is nice, sarcastic, with a joke always ready. For each investigation, the Marshal makes use of intuitions of Don Matteowhich he often passes off to colleagues as his own. Don Massimo will also have the same flair and will the same relationship be established with Cecchini? We’ll see.
In the first episode of the new season you will see Cecchini trapped in a time loop. Well, Don Matteo also experiments with narrative stargates. Seeing is believing. Antonio will have to support the goddaughter Valentinawho does not have a good relationship with his father Flavio, and above all solve the most important case of your career: the disappearance of Don Matteo (in the fifth episode) and the arrival in the parish of the unknown Don Massimo.
Maria Chiara Giannetta and Nino Frassica in Don Matteo
The return of Colonel Anceschi
Return in this 13th season Flavio Anceschi (Flavio Insinna), once Captain of the Carabinieri of Gubbio, now Colonel, but first of all historical friend of Don Matteo and of Marshal Cecchini. Insinna was missing from the fifth season.
We find him in Spoleto to celebrate Don Matteo’s 40 years of priesthood. Ever since his wife left her family, Anceschi has tightened up in the uniform and in the role of an upright father and Valentina has taken on the role of ‘perfect daughter’. A role that she is no longer able to support. What the father doesn’t know is that the girl has an unsolved trauma.
Flavio Insinna
Anna and Marco. Will they fall in love again?
Captain Anna (Maria Chiara Giannetta) and the PM Marco (Maurizio Lastrico) they became friends after the missed marriage and the betrayal of the magistrate. Marco received Anna’s forgiveness, but not her love for her. In fact, she decided to get involved with Sergioforgiving his mistakes and waiting for him to serve his sentence.
Anna has prepared everything for Sergio’s arrivalready to start a new life with him and Ineswhich she has meanwhile stayed to live with Don Matteo in the rectory. In the first episode but something goes wrong: Sergio does not warn that he was released before prison. Anna is banned. Marco instead meets Valentinabetween the two will be love at first sight?
Maria Chiara Giannetta and Maurizio Lastrico
Pippo and Natalina
Two fundamentals of the series cannot be missing even this season: Foo (Franceco Scali), the sacristan of the church of Spoleto, e Natalina (Nathalie Guetta) Don Matteo’s housekeeper. Will they welcome Don Massimo’s arrival? And will the spark finally break out between the two?
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