Inspector De Luca
Overview
Between 1938 and 1948, from the height of Italy s Fascist regime to the end of the tumultuous post-war period, Chief Detective De Luca investigates and solves crimes in the City of Bologna and along the Adriatic coast. With little or no regard for those in power, whoever they happen to be, his solitary, uncompromising character often lands him in trouble, but his respect is reserved for the truth and justice alone.
In the four TV movies of the series Unauthorized Investigation , Carte Blanche , The Damned Season and Via Della Oche each taken from a novel by best-selling mystery Carlo Lucarelli Chief Detective De Luca always ultimately gets to the bottom of his cases, though what he finds leaves a bitter aftertaste.
Episodes
At the seaside resort of Riccione in 1938 the body of a young prostitute is found on a beach, not far from Mussolini's holiday residence. The local chief of police, terrified that the news may...
S01E02 Carta Bianca
The second episode, takes place in 1945. Mussolini is still in power, but the Nazis have overcome the country and the Allies are quickly pushing in. Here, De Luca must solve the murder of a...
S01E03 Estate torbida
It is 1946. With the Allies fast approaching, De Luca and his fellow policemen flee into the countryside. Posing as partisans, they get caught up in a checkpoint skirmish that ends in bloodshed. The policemen...
S01E04 Via delle Oche
The time frame moves to 1948. The war is over and Italy is preparing for its first elections since Mussolini. De Luca is assigned the lowly task of policing the notorious red light district. When...
Cast

Alessandro Preziosi
Commissario Achille De Luca

Corrado Fortuna
Leopoldo Pugliese

Raffaella Rea
Valeria Suvich

Rolando Ravello
Roberto Rassetto
Angelica Leo
Graziella

Kasia Smutniak
Laura Utimperger

Stefano Pesce
Guido Leonardi

Nadja Bobyleva
Sonia Zuccari

Ana Caterina Morariu
Francesca

Richard Sammel
Silvestri