The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (TV series)

The Mafia Kills
Only in Summer
Genre Comedy, drama
Created by Pif, Michele Astori, Michele Pellegrini
Directed by Luca Ribuoli
Starring Claudio Gioè
Anna Foglietta
Nino Frassica
Francesco Scianna
Angela Curri
Edoardo Buscetta
Country of origin Italy
Original language(s) Italian, Sicilian
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 12 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time 50 minutes
Release
Original network RAI
Original release 21 November 2016[1]
External links
Website www.raiplay.it/programmi/lamafiauccidesolodestate-laserie/

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (Italian: La mafia uccide solo d'estate) is an Italian 2016 television series written by Pif, directed by Luca Ribuoli, produced and broadcast by RAI. Based on the homonym 2013 film, also directed by Pif, it was first aired on Rai 1 from 21 November to 20 December 2016.[1]

Plot

The voice-over narrator of the whole series is an adult Salvatore Giammarresi (Pif), a 10 years old boy (Edoardo Buscetta) that tells the story of an ordinary family of Palermo, his one, in the late 1970s.

The ordinary events, viewed from the kid's point of view, are mixed with the historical facts, regarding the Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra), which characterized the city in that period. Alternating reality and TV fiction, there are various storylines related to the Sack of Palermo, to the personal friendship of Salvatore with Boris Giuliano or Mario Francese (both killed by Mafia in 1979), etc.

Despite being set in the first seven months of 1979, within the fiction there are some flashbacks in which the narration develops in different periods.[2]

Cast

  • Claudio Gioè as Lorenzo Giammarresi[3]
  • Anna Foglietta as Pia Melfi Giammarresi[3]
  • Nino Frassica as Father Giacinto[3]
  • Francesco Scianna as Massimo Melfi[3]
  • Angela Curri as Angela Giammarresi
  • Edoardo Buscetta as Salvatore Giammarresi
    • Pif as Salvatore Giammarresi (adult, voice-over narrator)
  • Maurizio Bologna as Vito Ciancimino
  • Valentina D'Agostino as Patrizia
  • Nicola Rignanese as Boris Giuliano
  • Gaetano Bruno as Antonio Ayala
  • Carmelo Galati as Cusumano
  • Dario Aita as Rosario
  • Andrea Castellana as Alice Guarneri
  • Domenico Centamore as Salvatore Riina
  • Sergio Vespertino as Tommaso Buscetta
  • Natale Russo as Gaetano Badalamenti
  • Roberto Burgio as Mario Francese
  • Claudio Collovà as Filadelfio Aparo
  • Ottavio Amato as Salvo Lima
  • Enrico Gippetto as Fofò
  • Alessandro Piavani as Marco
  • Pierangelo Gullo as Sebastiano
  • Francesca Giordano as Santina
  • Aurora Quattrocchi as grandma Ninetta Melfi
  • Adriano Chiaramida as grandad Salvatore Melfi
  • Mimmo Mignemi as Musumeci
  • Ilenia D'Avenia as a teacher
  • Maurizio Marchetti as Nino Salvo
  • Orio Scaduto as Ignazio Salvo
  • Simona Malato as the mother of Giuseppe Letizia

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

Episode
(overall)		 Episode
(season)		 Title[4][5] Original air date
1
1
 La mafia non esiste 21 November 2016
2
2
 Fideiussioni e minchiate varie
3
3
 Uomini del Colorado 28 November 2016
4
4
 Tore
5
5
 Anche i mafiosi vanno in paradiso 6 December 2016
6
6
 Liggio + 2
7
7
 Un cornuto e mezzo 13 December 2016
8
8
 Milinciane ammuttunate
9
9
 Picciuli e piruocchi 19 December 2016
10
10
 Difendere la democrazia
11
11
 Gente di parola 20 December 2016
12
12
 Piccoli eroi

Season 2 (2017)

Soon after the season 1 finale, Pif declared that he is working to write the second season, and confirmed that it will be aired in 2017.[6][7][8][9]

Locations

The series is set mainly in Palermo, in which sometimes are also shown various cultural heritage sites, typical cuisine products or suburban boroughs as Mondello. Part of some episodes is set in various locations of the province as Partinico, Isola delle Femmine, Ficuzza, Corleone, the Garcia Dam and the mount Rocca Busambra.

The fiction was shot between Sicily and Lazio, principally at Civita Castellana, a town of the Province of Viterbo.[10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 (in Italian) "The debut of The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, the series". cinematographe.it, 10 November 2016
  2. ↑ (in Italian) "The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, the RAI fiction". Il Fatto Quotidiano, 23 November 2016
  3. 1 2 3 4 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer: full cast and crew at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ (in Italian) The Mafia Kills Only in Summer episodes (raiplay.it)
  5. ↑ The Mafia Kills Only in Summer: Season 1 at the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ (in Italian) "The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, yes to the season 2". Il Secolo XIX, 20 December 2016
  7. ↑ (in Italian) "The Mafia Kills Only in Summer season 2: info and news". ilsussidiario.net, 21 December 2016
  8. ↑ (in Italian) "Pif and his crew are working for the secons season of The Mafia Kills Only in Summer". tvzap.kataweb.it, 21 December 2016
  9. ↑ The Mafia Kills Only in Summer: Season 2 at the Internet Movie Database
  10. ↑ (in Italian) "The Mafia Kills Only in Summer: info, cast, credits and locations". kontrokultura.it, 14 november 2016
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