THEn tv the beloved returns Inspector Montalbanoobviously interpreted by the irreplaceable Luca Zingaretti. But it does it in a new way, because The Snack Thief, the episode aired tonight on Rai 1 at 21.25 is been restored with the very latest 4k resolution. It means greater clarity, brighter colors, images that seem to give real life to the characters. All associated with the companies of the Most beloved commissioner on TV And record of viewers around the world. In short, this is the replica of a great classic, but it will be a whole new experience.
Montalbano: everything new over 20 years later
The episode airing tonight, The Snack Thiefis the third novel by Andrea Camilleri (passed away in July 2019), father of the Inspector Montalbanobut it was the first of the homonymous tv series to be broadcast by Rai (on Rai 2) on May 6, 1999. At the time it was a gamble. A good project produced by Carlo Degli Esposti with the director Alberto Sironiwho passed away in August 2019 (the two signed all subsequent TV episodes of Montalbano), but the outcome of which was unknown.
As soon as it was aired it made a bang: immediately six millions of viewers. And then from the fourth season, in 2002, the relocation of the series from Rai 2 on Rai 1. Success was already total. Now back on tv in rerun in Ultra HD restored version because the house of production Palomar, who made Montalbano with RaiFiction, has provided breathe new life into the first four episodes of the series: The Snack Thiefprecisely, The voice of the violin (broadcast in ’99), The shape of water And The terracotta dog (broadcast in 2000). All now proposed in this new guise starting tonight.
The Snack Thief: the plot
The Montalbano-Zingaretti it is found at Vigataan imaginary Sicilian town that then allows you to show the beauties of Ragusa Ibla, Modica And Scicli (where the series is shot). Must investigate two murders which occur practically simultaneously. The first is that of a former merchant, Aurelio Lapecora, found stabbed in the elevator of the building where he lived. The second is that of a Tunisian sailor killed in the night while aboard a fishing boat of Mazara del Vallo, the Holy Father, intercepted and machine-gunned, apparently in international waters, by a Tunisian patrol boat. The shots kill the Tunisian sailor.
The merchant’s widow is convinced that the two deaths are connected. To support this thesis there is the fact that Montalbano discovers that Karimaa beautiful Tunisian cleaning lady who is missing with her son, she was the former merchant’s mistress. More, the commissioner also discovers that Karima he owned a savings book with five hundred million lire. Too high for a cleaner. Except Montalbano then he begins to delve into the life of the young Tunisian, visits her home, and he notices, in front of an elementary school, mothers who complain to a policeman about some thefts of snacks. Montalbano he senses that it is the son of Karima. He believes he is on the right track, but when things get complicated because the secret services get in the way.
In this episode we also meet Livia (Sonia Bergamasco)Montalbano’s icy long-distance girlfriend, who begins to express the desire to become a mother.
Montalbano: will there be new episodes?
Expected by all, the new episodes of Montalbano it seems they will not. It was indeed Marco Camillione of the closest collaborators of the manufacturer Carlo Degli Esposti to firmly deny the possibility that they see the light: “For the moment we do not talk about it. For us at Palomar Montalbano it is something that goes far beyond the commercial discourse: it is our history. It has a very strong emotional and identification value. In a very short space of time, then, we lost Andrea Camilleri, the father of the whole operation, Alberto Sironi, the director who put his brand on the product and the set designer Luciano Ricceri. These people were a huge piece of the soul of this project. These are losses that we have not yet metabolized. Any other speech is premature ».
However, it is true that gthe last two books by Camilleri, The Alcyon cook And Riccardino, they were never adapted for TV. And Angelo Russothe Ragusan actor who plays Catarella (that of “in person personally”), during an interview with a local broadcaster in June, he said that the new episodes will be there. Fans can keep hoping.
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