Detective Montalbano: Episode 37 [DVD]

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Although the authorities publicly pronounce Luparello's death to be from "natural causes", Montalbano questions the victim's widow and Rizzo; the latter implicates Ingrid Sjostrom, a Swedish former racing driver. On a computer it can be done, but it would be nice if there was a DVD version that could be viewed in Europe.

Montalbano comes under pressure from his superiors as the politicians involved in the two cases deplore his attitude and his handling of the cases. The victim, a two-bit loan shark working on the side as the founder and director of a theater company, acted like a Svengali among his theatrical acolytes.Meanwhile Montalbano comes to the rescue of his neighbour, Liliana Lombardo, whose car has been vandalised and he offers to give her a lift to work each morning while her car is being repaired. Thus both cases seem to be connected, and Montalbano eventually uncovers a drugs operation involving Adriano Lombardo and his mafia connections, with Liliana and Arturo caught in the middle. It continues to offer viewers an absolutely addictive mix of romance, humor, and intrigue in just the right proportions. He finds out that the charity for the elderly and disabled where Piccolomini was residing, was just a cover for the illegal transportation of drugs, which were cleverly hidden in the walking stick that the old man carried, and that the dog Orlando had been trained to attack the sniffer dogs who would have detected the drugs, but were deterred from approaching the old man and let him pass undisturbed onto the ferry. Pasquano with cannoli, and to add to the scene, the person who enters the office with the tray of cannoli is Alberto Sironi, the director of the Montalbano films.

The investigation is further complicated by the presence of a young and attractive head of the forensic team who awakens a deep passion in Montalbano, stirring feelings he hadn't experienced in years. Combines two short stories: "Amore" appearing in Un mese con Montalbano by Andrea Camilleri (not yet translated into English) and in English as "Amore" in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories, and "La prova generale" appearing in Gli arancini di Montalbano and in English as "The Dress Rehearsal" in Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories by Andrea Camilleri, (S. Montalbano finds her boyfriend Francesco to be a great help in uncovering the truth behind the apparent kidnapping. But make no mistake, the inspector – cool, irascible and driving a clapped out Fiat – possesses the uniquely compelling charisma of an antihero.He was taken ill during the filming of three new episodes in 2019 and Luca Zingaretti took over the direction. Montalbano receives a visit from Ernesto Sabatello who brings him some films shot for six consecutive years by Sabatello's deceased father, which always depict the same thing: the fixed shot of a wall. Livia wants Montalbano to get a new suit for a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary party and she sends him to the tailor and dressmaker Elena Biasini, a woman who also helps the police deal with the many migrants who are arriving each night by boat from North Africa. The investigation, already complicated by the impossibility of identifying the body found, becomes even more intricate due to the reporting by the beautiful Dolores of the disappearance of her husband, a maritime officer, related to the mafia family of Balduccio Sinagra. It was Ingrid's necklace that was found at the dump, and Rizzo claims she is a depraved woman who would have relished a sexual encounter at a place like the Mannara.

In 2017, Marcello Perrachio , who played a lead role as the forensic pathologist in thirty episodes, passed away.A month previously, however, Barletta fell in love with a new girl, to whom he promised a large sum of money and a house, and on the day of the murder he was about to change his will in her favour. But time is running out and Montalbano goes to the police station, where the owner of some Vigata fishing boats shows up in his office, telling him "to suspect" that two of his fishing boats are involved in drug trafficking. Inspector Montalbano (Complete Collection) - 17-DVD Box Set ( Il commissario Montalbano ) ( Detective Montalbano - Collections 1-9 ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg. In the Nordic countries the first 18 films are available as Box 1 (1–6), Box 2 (7–12) and Box 3 (13–18). This offers ample time for twists and turns in the plot as you try to discover the rather improbable circumstances of this engaging story.

Almost simultaneously, Carmelo Catalanotti, a loan shark and theatre director, is found dead in his own flat.It also created a spike in tourism in Sicily, dubbed the “Montalbano Effect,” that locals worry may now be in jeopardy. 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. The final episode was actually filmed in Agrigento, where Camilleri was born, and Ragusa, both in southern Sicily. Update 1/22: A recent article in Italian Vanity Fair speculates that two episodes of the popular Montalbano mysteries that have still not aired on TV, Riccardin o (released posthumously in 2020) and The Cook of the Halcyon (released in 2019) might still make it to the screen. Il Commissario Montalbano è da record: ecco i 5 motivi per cui il poliziotto di Vigata piace a tutti" (in Italian).