Inspector Montalbano (TV series)

Inspector Montalbano
Italian	Il commissario Montalbano
Genre	Detective fiction
Created by	Andrea Camilleri
Starring	Luca Zingaretti Cesare Bocci Peppino Mazzotta Angelo Russo Davide Lo Verde Marcello Perracchio Roberto Nobile Isabell Sollman Katharina Böhm Lina Perned Sonia Bergamasco
Country of origin	Italy
Original languages	Italian Sicilian
No. of seasons	15
No. of episodes	37 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	100 minutes
Production companies	Palomar Rai Fiction Sveriges Television (SVT)
Original release
Network	RAI 1 and RAI 2
Release	6 May 1999 (1999-05-06) – 8 March 2021 (2021-03-08)
Related
The Young Montalbano
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The Inspector Montalbano (Italian: Il commissario Montalbano [il kommisˈsaːrjo montalˈbaːno]) television series are Italian police procedural stories. Based on Andrea Camilleri's detective novels, they are located in the imaginary town of Vigàta, Sicily, which is based on Camilleri's native Porto Empedocle. The series protagonist, Salvo Montalbano, is the police chief, or commissario.

The music for the soundtrack was composed by Franco Piersanti.

Inspector Montalbano was produced and broadcast by RAI to critical acclaim.^[1] It premiered on Rai 2, and then, since the fourth season, on Rai 1. Over 65 countries have broadcast the series, including on BBC Four in the United Kingdom, MHz WorldView in the United States and SBS in Australia.^[2] In 2012, the series generated a spin-off, The Young Montalbano.