Don Matteo
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Don Matteo |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Year (s) | 2000– |
| Episodes | 248 in 12 seasons ( List ) |
| genre | Detective comedy |
| idea | Enrico Oldoini |
| production | Luca Bernabei |
| music | Pino Donaggio |
| First broadcast | January 7, 2000 on Rai 1 |
| occupation | |
Don Matteo is an Italian television series that has been broadcast on Rai 1 since 2000 . It is produced by Lux Vide SpA in collaboration with Rai Fiction . By 2018, 245 episodes were broadcast in a total of 11 seasons. At the beginning of 2018, the eleventh season started on Rai 1.
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Terence Hill plays the pastor Don Matteo in the small Italian town of Gubbio . Gubbio is in the province of Perugia in the Umbria region . Don Matteo is friends with the Carabiniere Antonino Cecchini. So he regularly receives information on the current criminal cases that are being processed by the Carabinieri of Gubbio. To the displeasure of the Carabinieri, Don Matteo always solves the criminal cases a little faster than the Carabinieri themselves. His relationship with the Carabinieri can generally be described as very good, only the fact that Don Matteo solves the cases over and over again annoys the boss in particular local Carabinieri from Gubbio, Capitano Giulio Tommasi (from season 6), before that Capitano Flavio Anceschi .
Regular contributors
- Terence Hill plays the pastor Don Matteo Minelli-Boldrini, namesake of the series.
- Nino Frassica plays Maresciallo Antonio Cecchini.
- Natalie Guetta plays Don Matteo's housekeeper.
- Francesco Scali plays the sexton.
- Flavio Insinna plays Capitano Flavio Anceschi, head of the Carabinieri in Gubbio (up to the 5th season).
- Simone Montedoro plays Capitano Giulio Tommasi, head of the Carabinieri in Gubbio (from the 6th season).
- Astra Lanz plays sister Maria (from the sixth season).
- Caterina Sylos Labini plays the wife of Antonio Cecchini.
- Pamela Saino plays the Cecchini's eldest daughter, Patrizia Cecchini. Patrizia married Giulio Tommasi at the end of the eighth season.
- Giada Arena plays the Cecchini's younger daughter, Assuntina Cecchini.
- Pietro Pulcini plays Brigadiere Ghisoni from the Carabinieri Gubbios.
- Giuseppe Sulfaro plays the Carabiniere Severino, he is the nephew of Antonio Cecchini.
- Ilaria Spada plays Amanda Patriarchi, Giulio Tommasi's former fiancée.
- Eleonora Sergio plays Andrea Conti, Gubbio's public prosecutor (from season 8).
- Andrea Pittorino plays Agostino, an orphan that Don Matteo has taken in with him.
- Alice Bellagamba plays Alma (season 9)
- Angela Melillo plays Marina
Nino Frassica plays Maresciallo Antonio Cecchini
Alice Bellagamba plays Alma
Episodes
About the series
The filming locations for the series Don Matteo are also the original locations, all of which are in Italy in the cities and regions of Gubbio , Perugia and Umbria . The series has so far been dubbed in different languages and broadcast in the countries concerned, including Finland , Slovakia and France . Since 2008, the series is also available as in Poland remake titled Ojciec Mateusz remade (Father Matteus).
Seasons 1 to 8 of Don Matteo were also partially released on DVD in the Italian original with English subtitles . A complete German version of Don Matteo has not yet been published. So far, only the first and third episodes of the first season have been published under the titles: "The Stranger" and "The Courage to Speak".
Web links
- Don Matteo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- - Official website of the RAI on Don Matteo
- Don Matteo on heyse-online.de
- Don Matteo on terencehill.de
- Don Matteo on fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.filmweb.pl/serial/Don+Matteo-2000-150157
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0178132/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt
- ↑ http://www.nowiny24.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080722/REGION00/204641907
- ↑ http://www.tvp.pl/seriale/sensacyjne/ojciec-mateusz
- ↑ http://italian-mysteries.com/DonMatteo-films.html