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New Rai crime series, The Alligator (8 x 60’), will premiere  today on Italian public broadcaster free OTT service RaiPlay and will air on Rai 2 prime time slot every Wednesday starting from November 25 for a four-week run.

From Massimo Carlotto’s homonymous bestseller, The Alligator is a new type of detective story in the Italian scenario, closer to the American noir for the entirely new ability to elaborate and tell real experiences from the world of prison and extra-legality.

“The Alligator” Marco Buratti is a former Blues singer. Unjustly sentenced to seven years in prison, as former prisoner he remained obsessed with justice. In those years behind bars he lost much, certainly too much: love and voice. He started to use his “skills” and his knowledge of the underworld, and he becomes a very particular investigator: he feels more comfortable in the marginal and extra-legal world than among policemen and magistrates. He willingly recurs to the help of strange characters: he doesn’t get his hands dirty, but he doesn’t mind asking for “unconventional” help. He believes in friendship, almost a faith for him, which allows him to keep together a bizarre team of investigators formed by a pacifist environmentalist, Max known as La Memoria and a smuggler with a past in the Milanese criminality, Beniamino Rossini.

Matteo Martani (in the picture above) was called to give body and voice to this particular literary character. Starring with him, Thomas Trabacchi plays Beniamino Rossini, Valeria Solarino is Greta, Gianluca Gobbi is Max La Memoria. And, again, Fausto Maria Sciarappa as Castelli, Eleonora Giovanardi as Virna, Shalana Santana as Marielita and Andrea Gherpelli as Pellegrini.

The Alligator is a co-production Rai Fiction-Fandango, produced by Domenico Procacci for Fandango, with the artistic supervision of Daniele Vicari. The screenplays are by Andrea Cedrola, Laura Paolucci with the collaboration of Massimo Carlotto.