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Inspector Nardone (2012)

Inspector Nardone poster
Directed by
Fabrizio Costa
Genre
detective fiction
Country
Italy
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A police commissioner solves crimes in 1950s Milan. The show mixes fictional plots with real criminal cases from that era.

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What happens

Inspector Nardone (Italian:Il commissario Nardone) is a 2012 Italian television miniseries. A crime series, it is based on the real-life figure Mario Nardone, a police officer who operated in 1950s Milan. It aired in twelve episodes on the Italian channel RAI. The cases presented throughout the series are fictional stories based on real Italian criminal cases, notably the murders committed by Rina Fort, The Beast of San Gregorio, and the armed robberies of the Banda Dovunque, led by Ugo Ciappina. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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