Detective Montalbano: Episode 37 [DVD]

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As the complexities of the cases develop, Montalbano realises that the kidnappings and the Di Carlo case are linked. As for our eponymous hero, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a Raymond Chandler quote that springs to mind: “Men want to be him, women want to be with him. However, Montalbano discovers that the real murderer is Anna Silch, the one-time mistress of Franco, Elena’s long-dead husband, who is presumed to have killed himself. Given the success of the Andrea Camilleri novels, published by Sellerio ( Palermo), RAI with Palomar [ it], commissioned a television series, in co-operation with Sweden's public service SVT, Sveriges Television, of most of the novels and short stories.

To escape notice and not jeopardize his friend’s marriage, Mimi was off to the balcony and then down to the apartment below — where he encountered a man’s corpse. It’s Montalbano’s birthday, and on his way to work he encounters a driver who nearly runs him off the road. After so many years of admiring what an extra-ordinary man Montalbano was, in the end, he turned out to be one of those men who was blinded by a young, fresh thing.

The commissioner and his colleagues draw up a list of possible future victims, but while they are guarding the house of one of them, shots are fired and the thieves escape. Montalbano finds the case nags at him because there are other girls with the same tattoo on the shoulder, all from Eastern Europe, who have found work and help through the Catholic Association "Goodwill", which saved them from a fate of prostitution.

During the summer of 2022, Luca Zingaretti, the actor who characterizes Salvo Montalbano was for several days in different Montalbano’s filming locations, such as Montalbano’s house in Punta Secca, the police station of Vigata (which is actually inside Scicli’s town hall), etc. But make no mistake, the inspector – cool, irascible and driving a clapped out Fiat – possesses the uniquely compelling charisma of an antihero. It is not the body of a victim but of another doll identical to that found in the palace of the Palmisano brothers. Montalbano fans took to social media last night to voice their "disappointment" in the central character who betrayed his partner of 20 years Livia (played by Sonia Bergamasco), dumping her over the phone after having a fling with his much younger colleague Antonia, played by Greta Scarano. Inspector Montalbano (Complete Collection) - 17-DVD Box Set ( Il commissario Montalbano ) ( Detective Montalbano - Collections 1-9 ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.The accountant Gargano has disappeared and with him all the money that many citizens of Vigata had given him in the hope that he would invest it productively. A disillusioned Montalbano, who got up early in the morning, witnessed the death of a seagull on the beach, noting that the agony resembles a dance. Pasquano who as usual refuses to give details on the dead before performing an autopsy, the commissioner Bonetti-Alderighi who does not authorize Montalbano to investigate his own death, his friend Mimì Augello.

Montalbano and Fazio quickly identify him as Gerardo Nicotra, an accountant with the construction company working on the pipeline. 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. Montalbano's friend, the elderly school principal Burgio, tells Montalbano that the cave and surrounding land belonged to the family of his school friend, Lillo Rizzitano.Elena is also an addict; he investigates her, but she does nothing at all to clear herself of blame. It turns out that the couples are acquaintances and part of a circle of friends who could all be potential victims.