Cacciatore: The Hunter
{{Short description|Italian television series}}
{{Expand Italian|topic=hist|date=June 2020|Il cacciatore (serie televisiva 2018)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox television
| native_name = {{Infobox name module|it|Il cacciatore}}
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| based_on = {{Based on|Cacciatore di mafiosi|Alfonso Sabella}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| creator = {{plainlist|
- Marcello Izzo
- Silvia Ebreul
- Alfonso Sabella
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| director = {{plainlist|
- Stefano Lodovichi (eps. 1–6)
- Davide Marengo (eps. 7–20)
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| starring = {{plainlist|
- Francesco Montanari
- Miriam Dalmazio
- Francesco Foti
- Roberto Citran
- Nicola Rignanese
- Marco Rossetti
- Giorgio Caputo
- David Coco
- Paolo Briguglia
- Edoardo Pesce
- Alessio Praticò
- Marcello Mazzarella
- Gaetano Bruno
- Francesca Inaudi
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| country = Italy
| network = Rai 2
| first_aired = {{Start date|2018|3|14|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2021|11|10|df=y}}
| num_seasons = 3
| num_episodes = 28
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Cacciatore: The Hunter ({{langx|it|Il cacciatore}}) is an Italian television series{{Cite web|url=http://dramaquarterly.com/tag/il-cacciatore-the-hunter/|title=Hunting season|website=dramaquarterly.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.betafilm.com/en/product/d/cacciatore-the-hunter.html|title=Cacciatore - The Hunter|website=Beta Film}} based on the autobiographical book Cacciatore di mafiosi by magistrate Alfonso Sabella. It originally aired on Rai 2 in March 2018.{{cite web|url=https://movieplayer.it/news/canneseries-2018-il-cacciatore-unica-serie-italiana-in-concorso_57181/|title=CANNESERIES 2018: IL CACCIATORE UNICA SERIE ITALIANA IN CONCORSO|website=movieplayer.it|language=it}}
Background
Alfonso Sabella was a longtime investigating magistrate for the anti-mafia task force in Palermo, which was led by Giancarlo Caselli. Having captured Leoluca Bagarella and Giovanni Brusca and visited the locations where these criminal mobsters had savagely tortured and killed their victims, Sabella interviewed major and minor informants, collecting a mass of stories detailing violence, wiretapping, and street ambushes. Investigating and capturing criminal fugitives, who had sometimes hidden for many years in Sicilian territory—at the time partly beyond the control of the Italian government—was a task beset with great difficulties.
Sabella's book recounts the crimes and eventual capture of Mafia bosses like Bagarella, Brusca, and Pasquale Cuntrera—infamous for directing the massacres of the summer of 1993 and the 1992 assassinations of dedicated anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino—as well as the capture of the mafiosi Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.Alfonso Sabella, [https://www.mondadoristore.it/Cacciatore-mafiosi-indagini-Alfonso-Sabella/eai978880470915/ Cacciatore di mafiosi. Le indagini, i pedinamenti, gli arresti di un magistrato in prima linea] (Italian title), Mondadori, 2019, 272 pages, {{ISBN|978-8804577157}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|tt8118950}}
{{Rai original series}}
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Category:Works about the Sicilian Mafia
Category:1992 murders in Italy
Category:2018 Italian television series debuts
Category:2021 Italian television series endings
Category:Television shows set in Palermo
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