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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Yes, the series is obviously made for Italian TV, and "standard Italian" is really the only dialect understood all over the country. If you had, say, a Piedmontese and a Sicilian, who spoke only their native dialects, trying to hold a conversation, it would be fun to watch. A truly authentic Sicilian language version would have tiny ratings methinks. I know there have been grumbles that the actor playing Montalbano isn't Sicilian.
(One of the minor joys of a recent trip to Italy was watching an episode of NCIS dubbed into Italian. Quite credibly, too.)
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My friend likes the spin-off series, "The Young Montelbano", better, because the actor who plays the title role in that
is Sicilian
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I very much enjoy the TV series. I really must read the books; I have a few of them I've picked up in Kindle Daily Deals, including an omnibus edition of the first four books in the series, but I've not yet read any of them.