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Detective Montalbano: Episode 37 [DVD]

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In Australia, the series was shown on Special Broadcasting Service in Italian, subtitled in English by SBS staff. The series was based on the detective novels of the late Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri who died in Rome two years ago.

Detective Montalbano is tasked with unraveling the truth behind this mysterious incident. As the investigation progresses, he delves into the secretive and competitive world of the film industry. The victim's family and colleagues become potential suspects, each with their own hidden agendas and troubled pasts.

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Salvo amato, Livia mia" appears in "Gli Arancini di Montalbano" by Andrea Camilleri, not yet translated into English On a road outside Vigata lies the abandoned scooter of a girl, Susanna Mistretta, who was going through a difficult time because of her terminally ill mother's depression. Montalbano finds her boyfriend Francesco to be a great help in uncovering the truth behind the apparent kidnapping. The enlargement of a photo sent by the kidnappers and the statement of a woman forced into prostitution to pay for the treatment of her disabled husband enable Montalbano to discover that the kidnapping was a hoax, planned by the girl herself and her uncle who had been in love with Susanna's mother. The uncle wished to economically and politically ruin his sister-in-law’s brother, Susanna's uncle, because of his role in the mother's depression. In a dream, Montalbano is about to marry Livia and finds out that Livia is cheating on him with Mimi, an old flame. He wakes from the dream to the reality of the disappearance of Michela Prestia who had been seduced into prostitution. She had found a way out and began a serious relationship with Saverio. It appeared that she simply abandoned Saverio and went with another man. Montalbano soon understands that this did not happen. A married couple, elderly theatre actors who are near the end of their lives, rehearse their joint death. Their life together is portrayed as a joyous love. Ominously, the Di Giovanni couple are rehearsing their local production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. Montalbano and Livia’s relationship grows stronger. Montalbano eventually recognises that the death of Michela was a tragic, crazy suicide. Something entirely anecdotal about Inspector Montalbano is that there are no artificial sceneries, staging, or special effects.

In the books, Montalbano’s stories, set mainly in Vigata and occasionally in Montelusa (both fictional towns), were adapted for television and filmed primarily in Ragusa province, among other locations in Sicily. You’re making me write a shitty novel about the story of Riccardino. It’s a pile of horseshit that doesn’t hold together,” the Author tells Montalbano. “‘Do you really mean that?’ ‘I really mean it. You are putting far too many contradictory elements into play and keeping them all on the same level, so that the reader gets lost in the confusion. This mystery is a big hodgepodge that reads like it was written by a beginner.’” While Andrea Camilleri, the author of the Montalbano detective novels, died in 2019, there are still 2 more books that Camilleri published before he died that have not been made into episodes of the Montalbano TV series.Tocco d'artista" appears in Gli arancini di Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri (not yet translated into English) and in English as "The Artist's Touch" in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories by Andrea Camilleri, (S. Sartarelli, trans.), Penguin Books: New York, 2016 Montalbano must end. It cannot be left to the train ( the last episode of Inspector Montalbano Season 15) and a lost-in-love Montalbano and out of any frame we have seen him in twenty years. While piecing together the events leading to Barletta's death, Montalbano finds himself drawn to Elena, a beautiful actress who had a close relationship with the deceased director. As their paths intertwine, Montalbano must confront his own vulnerabilities while staying focused on solving the case.

So, Where is Montalbano Filmed? Inspector Montalbano is entirely filmed in Sicily, Italy. The Sicilian provinces of Ragusa, Agrigento, Trapani, Siracusa, and Messina are where Montalbano was and is currently filmed in Italy. Within the province of Ragusa are the most important cities used during the shooting sessions. Despite the recurring reruns of Detective Montalbano in 4K that the Italian TV channel Rai has become accustomed to lately, the appearance of Salvo is always guaranteed success. That’s why everyone is wondering if we’ll ever see the two new episodes that have been talked about for some time now. One episode is taken from Andrea Camilleri’s latest novel, ‘ Riccardino‘, and the other is from the book ‘Il cuoco dell’Alcyon‘, published in 2019. Combines two short stories: "Gli arancini di Montalbano" appearing in English as "Montalbano’s Rice Balls" in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories by Andrea Camilleri, (S. Sartarelli, trans.), Penguin Books: New York, 2016 and "Stiamo parlando di miliardi" both appearing in Gli arancini di Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri (not yet translated into English). The translator said he first read Riccardino with some trepidation, conscious of its importance, and “anxious for it to live up to all the expectation”.

Set in the picturesque Sicilian town of Vigata, Detective Montalbano is a critically acclaimed Italian crime drama series based on the novels by Andrea Camilleri. Season 1 episode 37, titled "The Catalanotti Method," offers another captivating installment in the gripping world of the astute and charismatic Inspector Salvo Montalbano. As mentioned, two unreleased films will close the circle: the first is based on the novel “The Cook of the Alcyon”, released posthumously in 2019, while the second film is based on the novel “Riccardino” Camilleri expressly stated before his death that this is the novel that concludes the story of Inspector Montalbano, a book that was published in 2020. The entire Montalbano series had been directed by Alberto Sironi, who died suddenly in August 2019, afew weeks after Camilleri, with Zingaretti then stepping in as director.

In France, it was shown in winter 2013 on France 3 on Sundays with the title Commissaire Montalbano. In Spain, it was on La 2 on Saturdays in spring 2013 and in Argentina on the Europa channel. Although during 2022, some discussions regarding new episodes may not include Luca Zingaretti, the new director holding the project for 2023 and 2024, Maria Pia Ammirati has confirmed Zingaretti continues as Salvo. What Are the New Episodes of Detective Montalbano?

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The Commissioner on the one hand tries to manage the worsening relations between two major Mafia families of Vigata (Cuffaro and Sinagra), and on the other is engaged in the search for a foreign girl; and the trail leads into the Sicilian countryside, and to an abandoned railway station located Biagio, where a mentally disabled person confesses to having delivered the girl to a dangerous criminal involved in the white slave trade. Having been found, Montalbano discovers that the mafia war that erupted between the families is not due to issues of succession to power, but because the young foreigner having fallen in love, reciprocated, with the husband of the daughter of one of the gang leaders which unleash jealousy and then the physical elimination. What Are the New Episodes of Detective Montalbano? Two novels by Andrea Camilleri have not made it to the screen. We are talking about The Cook of the Alcyon ‘Il cuoco dell’Alcyon‘ and Riccardino and it is precisely from these books that Rai would like to resume the investigations of Il Commissario Montalbano.

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