The North America premiere date has been set for the Italian crime drama series Pale Mountains, starring Elena Radonicich and Matteo Martari.
Pale Mountains (Brennero) is inspired by the Night of Fire in June 1961, when the Befreiungsausschuss Südtirol (aka South Tyrolean Liberation Committee) began committing a series of attacks in Bolzano, capital of the predominantly German-speaking South Tyrol province in northern Italy, in its efforts for South Tyrol to secede from Italy and be re-annexed to Austria.
Set in the present day, the series opens with a murder in Bolzano. Here, the residents are of Germanic or Italian heritage, including those investigating the homicide: Eva Kofler (Elena Radonicich, La porta rossa, 1994), a young and ambitious deputy prosecutor from a wealthy German family, and Paolo Costa (Matteo Martari, All Heart, The Bastards of Pizzofalcone), a charming but reckless Italian police inspector with a troubled past. The two get on like oil and water, but work together to find the murderer.
Because the deceased, Hans Mayer, was a German-speaking resident, Eva believes he was the seventh victim of the “monster of Bolzano,” a serial killer whose earlier victims were all native German speakers, targeted because of their alleged discrimination against Italian-speaking citizens. Paolo, though, thinks otherwise. Whoever the perpetrator is, members of Bolzano’s law enforcement and criminal justice systems have been after them for years, including Eva’s father, Gerhard (Richard Sammel, A French Village), former head of the Bolzano prosecutor’s office, with whom Paolo had worked on past “monster”-related cases.
In addition to preventing more murders, Eva and Paolo also have personal reasons for catching the killer. For her, it’s a matter of proving herself worthy to her father; for him, it’s a matter of justice, given that he lost both his leg and his former partner, Giovanna (Naike Anna Silipo, Domina), while attempting to stop the murderer three years earlier.
Mayer’s death will not be the last, and new murder victims will not all be German speakers. As Eva and Paolo delve into past and present aspects of the serial killer case, they uncover hidden truths while also solving other crimes that are unrelated to the “monster of Bolzano.”
Pale Mountains, a Walter Presents title, premieres in the US and Canada on Friday, May 9, exclusively on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel and other Walter Presents partner channels.
Costars include Giovanni Carta (Mafia Only Kills in Summer), Lavinia Longhi (La porta rossa), Paolo Briguglia (The Law According to Lidia Poët), Lia Grieco (Luna Park), and Anita Zagaria (The Bastards of Pizzofalcone), amongst others.
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