Luca Zingaretti points to one main reason for the success of his police detective show 'Inspector Montalbano': Nostalgia.
He says the long-running television series speaks to a different era.
"It's an old-world that's disappeared, maybe our grandparents' world," he tells SBS Movies while in Australia for the Lavazza Italian Film Festival.
Zingaretti believes it's these old-world values and Salvo Montalbano's strict moral code that's at the heart of the appeal of Andrea Camilleri's stories. Camilleri, aged 90, is still writing the books the series is based on - and so, having already made 26 telemovies, the decision was made to make another season. Shooting wrapped on season 10 earlier this year.
Zingaretti says he still enjoys playing the character after 15 years.
"For me, Inspector Montalbano is like a friend who lives in a small village in the south of Sicily and I visit him every two years to see how he’s going.”
Zingaretti also has two recent movies featuring in this year's Lavazza Italian Film Festival, Edoardo De Angelis' Perez and Marco Pontecorvo's Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells (Tempo instabile con probabili schiarite).
Watch the interview with Luca Zingaretti:
'Inspector Montalbano' returns to SBS this year, with series nine screening in December.
-With Marco Lucchi and Sam Criniti.
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