Noetflix is ready to give us a new crime series. Director Stefano Sollima has in fact announced that filming has begun The monstera TV series that will retrace the events of the first Italian serial killer: the Monster of Florence.
The Monster of Florence: TV series divided into four episodes
That of the Monster of Florence was the first case of serial murders in Italy and it became fast one of the strongest media cases in our country. With this title he indicated himself an alleged serial murderer who committed seven double murders. All committed with the same weapon (a 22 caliber Beretta) in the surroundings of Florence in the period between 1968 and 1985.
In 1999 a final ruling arrived which has convicted two menidentified as the material perpetrators of four double murders. The so-called “snack buddies” were Mario Vanni and Giancarlo Lotti. A third man, Pietro Pacciani (first sentenced in first instance to multiple life sentences for the double murders committed from 1974 to 1985 and then acquitted on appeal), he died before undergoing a new appeal trial after the annulment of the acquittal sentence by the Supreme Court. All these events will be told in this one new television series divided into four episodes.
An archive photo of Piero Pacciani, 16 August 1997 outside a bar in Mercatale Val Di Pesa. Credit: ANSA ARCHIVE /ALESSANDRO BIANCHI/I54
The Monster/The Monster: Netflix and the truth of the facts
The TV series, directed and created by Stefano Sollima with Leonardo Fasoli, is a production of The Apartment, a Fremantle group company, and AlterEgo (Lorenzo Mieli and Stefano Sollima). Will be exclusively on Netflix and, as communicated, will be based on real events, direct testimonies, court documents and journalistic investigations.
The will is therefore to offer an authentic representation of the facts. But also that of doing justice to the victims, through the story of the pure truth.
Sollima: «There are many half-truths»
Stefano Sollimaformer director of Crime Novel – The Series, Gomorrah – The series And Subura, started working on this new productimmediately after submitting Slowlyhis latest film, at the latest Venice Film Festival.
The authors of the series explain. «We believe that telling the truth, and only that, is the only way to bring justice to the victims. In a story where there have been many possible monsters, over time and investigations, our story explores them, the possible monsters, from their point of view. Because the monster, in the end, could be anyone.”
In a recent interview with Variety, then, Sollima added. «I have been studying everything about this case for about a year. It’s just a very powerful story. It is complicated and delicate, of course, because it is a national tragedy with many victims. It is also an unsolved case, although many attempts have been made, to date there is no real monster, no real single culprit for all 16 murders.”
And he concluded. «There are so many half-truths. But what intrigued me most is that it could be the story of Italy’s transition from when it was a country with a peasant – or rural – culture to the break that occurred at the end of the Sixties, when sexuality was perceived as a means of expression. The moment in which these two cultures, archaic and modern, collided.”
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