Le ali della sfinge(200 [DVD9 PAL]





Taken from The wings of the sphinx

Directed by: Alberto Sironi

Written by: Andrea Camilleri, Francesco Bruni, Salvatore De Mola



Original title Inspector Montalbano

Country Italy

Year 1999 - in production

TV series format

Yellow, detective genre

Seasons 15

Episodes 37

Duration 100 min (episode)

Original language Italian, Sicilian

Ratio 16: 9





Creator Andrea Camilleri



Interpreters and characters



   Luca Zingaretti: Salvo Montalbano

   Cesare Bocci: Mimì Augello

   Peppino Mazzotta: Giuseppe Fazio

   Angelo Russo: Agatino Catarella

   Isabell Sollman: Ingrid Sjöström

   Davide Lo Verde: Galluzzo

   Marcello Perracchio: Dr. Pasquano

   Roberto Nobile: Nicolò Zito

   Katharina Böhm: Livia Burlando (st. 1-

   Lina Perned: Livia Burlando (st. 9)

   Sonia Bergamasco: Livia Burlando (st.10+)



Other performers: Giorgio Bongiovanni (Costantino Morabito), Giuseppe Caponnetto (Beniamino Graceffa), Kristina Novikova (Irina), Isabell Sollman (Ingrid Sjöström), Maurizio Donadoni (Father Pinna), Nellina Laganà (Ciccina Picarella), Valbona Malaj (Katia), Tullio Sorrentino (lieutenant of the carabinieri), Antonio Marfella (Professor Leontini)



Audio: Italian Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles: Italian for the hearing impaired





Inspector Montalbano is not spending a simple period with Livia: continuous quarrels, misunderstandings due to distance and nervousness. One morning he is called to a beach where the body of a naked girl was found with her face devastated by a bullet. The only distinctive sign: a butterfly tattooed on the shoulder, which could facilitate identification. Montalbano is rather listless at first but the case drags him as there are other girls with the same tattoo on their shoulder, all from Eastern Europe and who have found work and help thanks to the Catholic association "Good Will", which saved them from a fate of prostitution. And while the investigation is going on, the commissioner is pressed from all sides: by the bishop, who does not admit shadows on "Goodwill", by the commissioner, who does not want to displease the bishop, by Livia, who wants to leave with him to meet again.