Rai1: the third season of “I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone” from Monday 20 September
The second season ended with an attack that involved all the protagonists of the series. And now the time has finally come to know the consequences of that devastating explosion. Coming soon to Rai1 the long-awaited third season of 'I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone', with Alessandro Gassmann in the role of the fascinating and tormented inspector Giuseppe Lojacono.
From the novels by Maurizio de Giovanni (Einaudi Stile Libero), six prime time TV shows directed by Monica Vullo. A Rai Fiction – Clemart co-production, first shown on the flagship network from Monday 20 September and previewed online on RaiPlay on 18 September prime time.
With Alessandro Gassmann (Lojacono), Carolina Crescentini (Laura Piras), Antonio Folletto (Aragona), Tosca D'Aquino (Ottavia), Massimiliano Gallo (Commissioner Palma), Gianfelice Imparato (Pisanelli), Simona Tabasco (Alex Di Nardo), Gennaro Silvestro (Francesco Romano), Gioia Spaziani (Letizia), Serena Iansiti (Rosaria Martone), Matteo Martari (Buffardi) and Maria Vera Ratti (Elsa Martini). Like the previous ones, the new episodes also follow the structure and mechanisms of the classic mystery. Crimes that arise from the heart of human misery, from the dilemma posed by difficult choices, from the common tragedies of our lives.
A bitter and very human comedy, full of great emotional truth. The setting of the events is a Naples suspended between tradition and modernity, the vanguard of a dialectical tension that runs through all of Italian culture, projected into the future, but with a past behind it that must always be reckoned with.
History
The attack that concluded the second season raised many, too many questions. But the most pressing concerns which of the protagonists managed to save themselves. The third season begins the moment after the explosion that caused its set of deaths and injuries. But the emotional consequences of the attack cause effects that prove even more devastating than the explosive. Inspector Lojacono is the first to have to deal with the crisis that afflicts the survivors. Feelings of guilt and mutual accusations undermine the personal life and emotional sphere of the entire team. An unanswered question looms over everyone: who planted that bomb and why? The Bastards are victims of the attack and therefore they are prevented from investigating what happened. They will have to do it secretly, dealing with the incorrect and inefficient methods of a prosecutor from Rome. At the same time, an internal investigation within the team reveals many uncomfortable truths and a past that was better left buried. The period following the bomb represents a turning point for the survivors, between unconfessed loves, attempts to revive a distant past and new existential steps. The members of the team reveal hidden aspects of their lives and their nature. No one is what they seemed. In those confused and desperate days, the relationship between Inspector Lojacono and Laura Piras undergoes a turning point. After looking death in the face, the two lovers decide to make their relationship stable. The Bastards team then receives lifeblood from the arrival of a new commissioner, Elsa Martini, who has just been acquitted in a trial for the death of a pedophile. Martini has been declared innocent, but the rumors of an actual execution have not died down. This makes Elsa a Bastard in the full sense. Her strong-willed presence shuffles the logic of the group that continues to nourish the suspicion that hovers over her: did Elsa really kill a man in cold blood? Meanwhile, Lojacono spends his hours tormented by feelings of guilt, remorse and regrets. Also because the investigations into the bomb give rise to unthinkable hypotheses that slowly involve the team. A mystery that becomes Lojacono's obsession and will mark the entire course of the third season.
The characters
Giuseppe Lojacono (Alessandro Gassmann): a tormented character made more acute by a slander that changed his life. Inspector Lojacono is not an easy man, brusque and lapidary, with an endemic inability to give in to emotional outbursts. But he has a great capacity for intuition and the stubbornness of someone who throws himself into every case headlong, driven by an immense desire for justice. He is a fine connoisseur of the human soul. The only one he cannot truly understand is himself, with that malaise that he carries inside and that he cannot resolve. His daughter Marinella is everything to him and this has led him to clash several times with the woman who did the impossible to enter his life. Laura Piras (Carolina Crescentini): brilliant deputy prosecutor of the Naples prosecutor's office. Her investigative intelligence is matched only by that of Lojacono, with whom she shares the same desire for justice. In him, Piras has found the perfect ally in the investigations that often see them collaborate together. And he is the one Laura Piras loves deeply. For Piras, her career has always come first, driven by a burning sense of responsibility, by the desire to do the right thing. But then she met Inspector Lojacono and a glimmer of hope opened up in her heart. After a troubled relationship, it seems that the two have finally found a way to be together and crown their love. Until the attack calls everything into question. With a series of gripping twists, this third season tells the painful consequences of the attack for the entire team. Each of the Bastards will find themselves facing their own private demons, emerging from a past that was meant to remain buried and that is added to the thousand questions that arose in the days following the explosion. Meanwhile, for each of them a difficult path begins that will change them forever.
Director's Notes, Monica Vullo
“When I was asked to do the third season of I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone it immediately seemed like a wonderful challenge and a great opportunity. I knew Maurizio de Giovanni's novels and I knew the previous series. The great success that preceded me didn't scare me, on the contrary it was my fuel. The leading actors are extraordinary. The protagonists of the episodes introduced me to the immense vastness of Neapolitan talent. Then Naples, you can't say you know it until you breathe in its corners, its squares, its streets, the sea, Vesuvius, the grandeur of its buildings, the beauty spread everywhere like icing sugar and in any case after months of work you leave with the clear sensation of not knowing it yet. Starting from these premises I tried to give my best, thanks to the writing work and the collaboration of the technicians, a mix of Neapolitans and Romans thanks to whom I created I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone. During the shooting I had de Giovanni's books next to me on one side and the belly of Naples on the other. Understanding in depth is not always easy, filming was stimulating and fun, every corner of this city is sometimes a frame, sometimes a canvas. I truly thank everyone for this overwhelming experience. The artists, the technicians, Maurizio de Giovanni, Clemart, Rai and the city of Naples without which everything would be just 'the rest of nothing' ".
The first two episodes
Episode 1: 'Fires'. Immediately after the attack, Letizia's restaurant has turned into an inferno from which the wounded and the dead are pulled out. With the prohibition to investigate the incident, the Bastards are put under pressure and their most uncomfortable past comes to light. Until the tip made by an old enemy opens an unexpected trail. Now the Bastards can really begin their investigations, without anyone knowing anything.
Episode 2: 'Empty'. The disappearance of a teacher much loved by her students and much hated by her husband gives rise to a dilemma: is it legitimate to base an investigation only on an intuition? This is the opinion of the newest member of the Bastards, Commissioner Martini, a woman with brusque manners and an uncomfortable past behind her, as well as a loose cannon for Inspector Lojacono and the entire team. Meanwhile, the web of a threatening stalker tightens around Laura Piras.
Article published on 17 September 2021 - 10:34
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