La danza del gabbiano (2011) [DVD9 PAL]





Taken from The dance of the seagull

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

16: 9 ratio





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 interpreters: Ilenia Maccarrone (Angela), Sebastiano Rapisarda (Carmine Fazio), Giuseppe Di Maura (Doctor), Marcello Perracchio (doctor Pasquano), Davide Lo Verde (Galluzzo agent), Alfredo Libassi (Vittorio Carmona), Morgana Gargiulo (the trans Giovanna Lonero), Raimondo Todaro (Sassu agent).



Audio: Italian Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles: Italian for the hearing impaired





A disillusioned Montalbano, up early in the morning, witnesses the death of a seagull on the beach, noting that the agony resembles a dance. But time is running out and Montalbano goes to the police station, where the owner of some Vigata fishing boats comes to his office, telling him "to suspect" that two of his fishing boats are involved in drug trafficking. Montalbano promises him that he will investigate and, as soon as the man is dismissed, he is joined by Inspector Fazio's father to get news of his son, who has not shown up for their appointment. In fact, Fazio should have accompanied his father to do some analyzes, but from the night before, after receiving a phone call from Montalbano asking for his presence at the port, he has not given any news of himself and has his cell phone turned off. Unless, realizing that something is wrong, since he did not call the policeman the night before, he lies to his father, saying that he has sent him on a confidential mission and that he will see him again soon. The father, reassured, leaves the office, while Salvo calls Mimi and informs him of Fazio's disappearance. (For the commissioner, Fazio was probably following a private investigation that no one was aware of and something must have gone wrong.)

Montalbano and Mimì, after going to the port, receive a tip that reveals that Inspector Fazio was last seen on Mount Scibetta, near a well, in the company of some people. Montalbano and Mimì, fearing the worst, climb up Mount Scibetta and, having opened the well, they find two corpses, but not the inspector, who will be found shortly after inside a cave, wounded and frightened. The inspector, after being transported to the hospital, reveals to the commissioner that he has gone to the port to meet his childhood friend, Filippo Manzella, who had revelations to tell him. But once he arrived, he was surrounded and brought to Mount Scibetta by a group of people, who tried in vain to throw him into the well. Montalbano, after discovering that Manzella was one of the two corpses found in the well, realizes that it could not have been he who warned Fazio, and for this reason he investigates the man's life, finding in his apartment a letter addressed to himself, that Manzella, feeling threatened and thinking he could have a bad end, had left him. In that letter Manzella reveals that he discovered, with his telescope, an arms trafficking in the port, led by Franco Sinagra, who was also the violent and very jealous companion of the transsexual Giovanna, whom he also used to frequent. Montalbano, discovering this, manages to obtain from PM Tommaseo the search warrant for the house in Sinagra, where he arrests the man, after having found the evidence that frames him: Manzella's telescope.