Sttonight at 21.25 Rai 1 repeats The young Montalbanothe prequel of the famous series Inspector Montalbanobroadcast for the first time in 2012. Based on the novels by Andrea Camilleri, it has as protagonist Michele Riondino, And traces Salvo’s early years in Vigata, from the first meeting with his partner Catarella to the beginning of the tormented love story with Livia.
The young Montalbanothe plot of the first episode
Montalbano’s first investigation is the first of six episodes that make up the first season. It’s the fall of 1990. Salvo Montalbano (Michele Riondino) is just over thirty years old and he is deputy commissioner in Mascalippa, an imaginary village on the Sicilian Apennines. Although he loves his job, he is not satisfied with the place where he is forced to do it, as he misses the sea.
He has long been engaged to Mery (Katia Greco), a teacher from Catania. Theirs is a long-distance story and they only see each other over the weekend, when she returns to Mascalippa. Montalbano is affectionate, but doesn’t feel ready to turn the relationship into something serious. And when Mery mentions marriage and children, Salvo just wants to run away. Certainly, she is not the woman of his life and they soon say goodbye.
In fact, he becomes commissioner and a new page begins. It is transferred to Vigata, a municipality in the province of the mysterious Montelusaand the adventures that have kept readers and viewers company for over twenty years begin. Montalbano has unfinished business with Vigata. He lived there as a child, after his mother died. The father still lives there, works as a winemaker, but the two are not on good terms at all.
The meeting between Salvo and Augello, Catarella and Fazio
Once inside the new police station, knows the agents with whom he is called to collaborate. Among all, two of the colleagues with whom he will share various experiences and with whom he will establish a relationship that will go beyond simple professional esteem. It’s about Carmine Fazio (Andrea Tidona) – an experienced inspectorwhich helps him become familiar with the new office and with the new reality – and a young Agatino Catarella (Fabrizio Pizzuto), a policeman who is as nice as he is clumsy. Mimì Augello (Alessio Vassallo) closes the circlewith whom there is initially no good blood.
The first case he is called to work on concerns the murder of a certain Casio Allettoa man with a record for cattle rustling. The main suspect is Gaetano Borruso known as Tano (Renato Lenzi), a shepherd on whom the accusations fall. Montalbano, however, suspects that he is not the real culprit.
Michele Riondino in the series “The young Montalbano”. (HANDLE)
That’s not all, why the commissioner is focused on solving another story. It’s about Viola Monaco (Valentina D’Agostino), a woman who has suffered a rape in the past. Now, years later, she is ready to put into practice a foolproof plan to take revenge on her captor. Providential is the intervention of Salvo, who in addition to stopping her, manages to capture the man.
The young Montalbanoin the cast also Pierpaolo Spollon
Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, The young Montalbano it aired for two seasons, in 2012 and 2015. The cast saw the participation of a large number of actors. In addition to those already mentioned, appear Pierpaolo Spollon (Spanish Agent) – protagonist of the Rai series, among all DOC – In your hands And Blanca –, Paride Benassai (Doctor Sciacca)Gianfelice Imparato (Commissioner Libero Sanfilippo), Cristiano Pasca (Stefano Botta) and Pietro De Silva (Commissioner Oriani).
The series also tells of the first meeting between Salvo and Livia Burlando, played here by Sarah Felberbaum (In the Inspector Montalbano had the face of Katharina Böhm, Lina Perned and Sonia Bergamasco). It happens in the third episode, while she is investigating a case. She discovers that is from Genoa, works as an architect and is in Vigata on vacation. It will be the beginning of one of the longest and most tormented love stories of Italian television series.
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