The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (TV series)
Mafia Only Kills in Summer 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. In the United Kingdom the series was broadcast by Channel 4.
Plot
The voice-over narrator of the whole series is an adult Salvatore Giammarresi, a 10-year-old boy 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, 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, etc.
Despite being set during 1979 and 1980, within the fiction there are some flashbacks in which the narration develops in different periods.
Cast
- Claudio Gioè as Lorenzo Giammarresi
- Anna Foglietta as Pia Melfi Giammarresi
- Nino Frassica as Father Giacinto
- Francesco Scianna as Massimo Melfi
- Angela Curri as Angela Giammarresi
- Edoardo Buscetta as Salvatore Giammarresi
- *Pif as Salvatore Giammarresi
- 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
- Claudia Gusmano as Marina Micciché
- 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
- Dajana Roncione as Jolanda Rubino
- Mario Patanè as Pellerito
- Pierluigi Misasi as Gaetano Costa
- Antonio Puccia as Piersanti Mattarella
- Antonio Alveario as Rocco Chinnici
- Vincent Riotta as Michele Greco
- Claudio Castrogiovanni as Stefano Bontate
- Rosario Lisma as Carmelo Iannì
- Simona Malato as the mother of Giuseppe Letizia
Episodes
Season 1 (2016)
Season 2 (2018)
Soon after the season 1 finale, Pif declared that he was working to write the second season, and confirmed that it will be aired in 2018.| Episode | Episode | Title | Original air date |
| L'apostolo rosa | 26 April 2018 | ||
| Pezzo di fango e cornuto | 26 April 2018 | ||
| Santuzze e pitonesse | 3 May 2018 | ||
| Finché c'è disperazione c'è speranza | 3 May 2018 | ||
| Rime baciate | 10 May 2018 | ||
| Carbone per il presidente | 10 May 2018 | ||
| Bulli e pupe | 17 May 2018 | ||
| La mafia è un parallelepipedo | 17 May 2018 | ||
| Un fatto di chimica | 24 May 2018 | ||
| La fortuna è lieve | 24 May 2018 | ||
| L'inno del carrubo | 31 May 2018 | ||
| Il posto dei civili | 31 May 2018 |
Possible future seasons
Interviewed in April 2018, Pif discussed about the possibility of future seasons, because his intent is to narrate the events occurred in Palermo at least until the ones of 1992, as it happened in the 2013 film.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.