Inspector Montalbano - Season 1 - Eps 1: The Snack Thief

Name: Eps 1: The Snack Thief
Released: 1999-05-06
Rating: 4.2

1999-05-06 • 105 min • ⭐ 8.3/10

Detective Montalbano investigates the murder of a local businessman called Lapecora. Lapecora's widow suspects that he was killed by his lover Karima, a young Tunisian woman who mysteriously disappeared on the day of the murder. After succeeding in tracking down Karima's five-year-old son Francois, Montalbano realises that the case might be linked to that of a Tunisian man, also killed in mysterious circumstances on the same day that Lapecora died. Meanwhile, Montalbano's partner Livia, who has been entrusted with looking after Francois, becomes very attached to the young orphaned boy.

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About Inspector Montalbano

Title: Inspector Montalbano

First Air Date: 1999-05-06

Last Air Date: 2020-03-16

Status: Ended

Rating: 8.3/10 (from 65 votes)

Language: IT

Seasons: 15

Total Episodes: 36

Network: Rai 2 Rai 1

Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Drama

Production Companies: Palomar, RAI

Synopsis

Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.