A beautiful, positive and at times normal Palermo is the backdrop to the lives of two brothers: Fabrizio, a journalist with a fiery character and Roberto, an upright lawyer. Two opposite personalities, but their union will prove fundamental in solving the most complex crime cases. The TV series “I Fratelli Corsaro”, four prime time episodes airing on Canale 5 from tomorrow. A fiction based on the novels of the Sicilian journalist Except Tuscan. Impulsive and libertine Fabrizio, played by Joseph Fiorelloprecise and calm Roberto, Paolo Briguglia, very much in love with his wife, despite the constant bickering.
“Shooting in Palermo has almost always meant, apart from the Florios, dealing with the mafia. In Fratelli Corsaro we talk about a much more normal and even beautiful city” he explains Paul Briguglia. «Roberto is a very scrupulous criminal lawyer, passionate and attentive to his work. He is a believer, he has a good relationship with the parish priest who is a family friend. In the novel there is a hint of excessive seriousness that made him almost distant from the immediacy of his brother. I felt the need to contaminate him a bit and I wanted to add the more human, more clumsy, more likeable and also more cheerful aspects of this character».
Unlike Briguglia, Giuseppe Fiorello had read Toscano’s novels: “I was immediately fascinated by a series of original elements that distinguished them from certain clichés of the detective genre to which they belong, both in the characters and in the context. So rich in humanity, psychology, intricacy and charm. And then there is Palermo, an extraordinary and unique city. Palermo won me over, it positively surprised me and I am happy to have known it now, as an adult.”
The screenplay is signed by Giuseppe Fiorello himself, Salvatore De Mola, Pier Paolo PiciarelliThe direction is by Francesco Micciche. «In the novels there is a great love for Palermo and we wanted to bring this back into the series, to give the public back the beauty and charm of the Sicilian capital: a city of lively contradictions» – explains Miccichè.
The Messina Maurizio Marchetti is Don Trovato: «I am a dear family friend. Roberto is a practicing Catholic and so I have one attitude with him and another with Fabrizio. But I am their great advisor. The Palermo that Miccichè describes in this series is beautiful and positive. The detective stories are interesting and enjoyable and then there are the private stories that intersect: the final product is very enjoyable. Don Trovato has another characteristic: we could call him a worker priest, he is in contact with humanity, with people’s problems». Roberta Rigano is Giulia Orlando, Fabrizio’s colleague; Lorena Cacciatore is Valeria, Fabrizio’s partner; Enrica Pintore is Monica CorsaroRoberto’s wife; the actress from Messina Katia Greco is Maria Librizziactivist committed against the mafia; Vittorio Magazzù is Pippo Noceranewspaper photographer; Anita Zagaria is Antonia Corsaro, mother of the Corsaro brothers; Massimo De Lorenzo is Gaetanoformer policeman; Francesco Foti is Fisichelladeputy commissioner.
“In my novels – states the writer Salvo Toscano – I tell the story of an “everyday” Palermo, seen through the eyes of those who were born and raised there. Roberto and Fabrizio are two people who are in some ways ordinary, with their strengths and weaknesses, far from being models or heroes.”
I Fratelli Corsaro is produced by Camfilm, with the contribution of the Fund for the Development of Investments in Cinema and Audiovisual and with the contribution of the Sicilian Region, presented by Taodue.
