| Title |
Once upon a time in Vigata. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Madman Entertainment, [2022] |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
2 DVD-videos (343 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Hi Gloss Entertainment : HIG090. |
| Originally released as single Made-for-TV movies in Italy during 2018, 2019 and 2020. |
| "3 films from the pen of Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano)"--Cover |
| Based on the books by Andrea Camilleri. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: The knight's move (2018) (La mossa del cavallo) ; The hunting season (2019) (Stagione di caccia) -- Disc 2: The telephone confession (2020) (La concessione del telefono). |
| Credits |
Directors: Roan Johnson, Gianluca Maria Tavarelli. |
| Performers |
Alessio Vassallo, Michele Riondino, Thomas Trabacchi [and others]. |
| Summary |
The knight's move: In 1877, Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is sent back from Genoa to his native town Vigata, in Sicily, where he is tasked with the investigation of illegal activities caused by an unjust tax on milling, facing the dialectal and cultural barriers of post-unification Italy. He discovers the existence of a clandestine mill and an ingenious system by which the millers are left free to evade the tax, becoming involved, little by little, in something much greater. |
| The telephone concession: A comedy of misunderstandings with surreal implications, set at the end of the nineteenth century in Vigata, the fictional town where the Andrea Camilleri set all his novels, up to the adventures of Inspector Montalbano. The simple request to activate a telephone line, advanced by Mr. Genuardi, triggers a chain of misunderstandings and cheating that becomes a metaphor for an existential condition. |
| The hunting season: Tells the story of a pharmacist, Alfonso La Matina or Fof to his friends, who arrives in Vigata in 1880. Sicily is still the scene of clashes between the Savoy and the brigands. In the turmoil of the socio-political climate Fof decided to return home to open his pharmacy after studying internationally. Coinciding with his return, however, strange events begin to occur - sudden and inexplicable deaths, in which the Peluso, the most powerful family of Vigata, are certainly involved, but which also suggest a responsibility of the recent pharmacist. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA15+. |
| System details |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital ; PAL ; Region 4 ; 16:9. |
| Language note |
In Italian with English subtitles. |
| Subjects |
Camilleri, Andrea -- Film adaptations |
| Pharmacists -- Sicily -- Drama |
| Crime -- Sicily -- Drama |
| Cities and towns -- Sicily -- Drama |
| Feature films -- Italy |
| Motion pictures, Italian |
| Foreign language films |
| Sicily -- History -- 19th century -- Drama |
| Genre |
Comedy films |
| Historical films |
| Made-for-TV movies |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Other Names |
Johnson, Roan director. |
| Tavarelli, Gianluca Maria director. |
| Vassallo, Alessio actor. |
| Riondino, Michele actor. |
| Trabacchi, Thomas actor. |
| Camilleri, Andrea. Mossa del cavallo Motion picture adaptation of (work). |
| Camilleri, Andrea. Stagione di caccia Motion picture adaptation of (work). |
| Camilleri, Andrea. Concessione del telefono Motion picture adaptation of (work). |
| Added titles |
Knight's move (Made-for-TV movie : 2018) |
| Hunting season (Made-for-TV movie : 2019) |
| Telephone confession (Made-for-TV movie :2020) |
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