The Young Montalbano
| The Young Montalbano | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | 'Il giovane Montalbano' |
| Genre | Police procedural |
| Written by | Francesco Bruni Andrea Camilleri |
| Directed by | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli |
| Starring | Michele Riondino |
| Theme music composer |
Andrea Guerra (music) Davide Camarrone (lyrics) |
| Opening theme |
Curri, curri (sung by Olivia Sellerio) |
| Ending theme |
Vuci mia cantannu vai (sung by Olivia Sellerio) |
| Composer(s) | Andrea Guerra |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language(s) | Italian, Sicilian |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Gianfranco Barbagallo |
| Producer(s) | Carlo Degli Esposti Nora Barbieri Max Gusberti |
| Location(s) |
Ragusa Scicli |
| Cinematography | Lorenzo Adorisio (Season 1) Mario Pieroni (Season 2) |
| Editor(s) | Alessandro Heffler |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Rai Fiction Palomar |
| Distributor | Rai Trade |
| Release | |
| Original network | Rai 1 |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 23 February 2012 – 19 October 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Inspector Montalbano |
| External links | |
| Il giovane Montalbano | |
The Young Montalbano (Italian: Il giovane Montalbano) is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) in 2012 and 2015. It is a prequel to the popular series Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il commissario Montalbano), based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri, set in the fictional town of Vigàta, Sicily.
The first season was originally broadcast in February–March 2012 by Rai 1 in Italy. The series was broadcast in the United States by MHz WorldView as part of their International Mystery series in October–November 2012. The BBC acquired the series in late 2012, and the first episode was broadcast by BBC Four in the UK on 7 September 2013.
Series producer Carlo Degli Esposti, in an interview published in TV Sorrisi e Canzoni in April 2012, confirmed that a second season was expected to start filming in late 2013, but it was then delayed until August 2014, and the second season was not broadcast in Italy until September–October 2015.
In 2016 UK's BBC 4 began broadcasting Series 2. The first episode 1/6, "The Man Who Followed Funerals" was broadcast on 6 January 2016.
Michele Riondino wrote in a blog for the BBC:
"Accepting the offer to play Salvo Montalbano in The Young Montalbano all happened when I was on the set of We Believed. I played a soldier from Garibaldi's army and I had a very scruffy look: unkempt beard, matted hair, mud stains on my face. The film producer was Carlo Degli Esposti, the same producer of Inspector Montalbano, who seeing me in that state had, as he puts it, an intuition. […] A few days later I received a phone call from my agent who told me about a phone conversation with Degli Esposti and how he had been impressed by my look. He told me that Carlo had in mind having young Montalbano as somewhat of a Che Guevara and that my red shirt soldier had convinced him I could be him. I was extremely flattered by the proposal but I didn't accept immediately. It took me several months before I managed to convince myself. Montalbano was always Luca Zingaretti. […] I feared some sort of media attack, since changing the face of the detective was almost blasphemy to some".
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