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The TV Movie Nemiche per la pelle broadcast by Rai 1 on Wednesday, April 18 in prime time achieved 3.5 million viewers with an audience share of 14.7%. In the same slot, the movie Un giorno come tanti broadcast by Canale 5 achieved only 1,8 million viewers with an audience share of 8.3%. the last episode of drama series Il Cacciatore on Rai 2 got a brilliant result with 1.6 million viewers and an audience share of7%.The Italian drama just won an Award during the last edition of CanneSeries in April.
The story is based on the true story of Italian prosecutor and ‘Mafia hunter’ Alfonso Sabella is dramatised in Sicilian crime thriller Il Cacciatore (The Hunter). Executive producers Michele Zatta and Ferdinand Dohna reveal the story behind the series.
It’s a story that has all the hallmarks of a classic Mafia drama. Rival families fight for control of the streets of Sicily until an ambitious young prosecutor proves he is willing to stand up for the many innocents caught up in decades of bloodshed.
Yet the premise of Il Cacciatore (The Hunter) is one entirely based on fact. Based on prosecutor Alfonso Sabella’s book Cacciatore di Mafiosi, it charts the author’s real-life war against the Mafia bosses and the period known as “hunting season” that led to more than 300 arrests.
Set in Palermo in 1993, the war between two Mafia clans is spiralling out of control when Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor played by Francesco Montanari (Romanzo Criminale), uses his distinct skills and a succession of brilliant hunches, spectacular raids and front-page arrests to return law and order to the city.
The 12-part series is produced by Cross Productions and distributor Beta Film in partnership with Rai Fiction, which airs the series on Rai Due.