The Netflix series premieres today, Wednesday, October 22, and tells the story of a serial killer that took place between 1968 and 1985 in Florence, Italy.
Netflix is one of the most used streaming platforms worldwide and there is a production formula that works very well: series about real serial killers. The Monster of Florence is not like other Netflix adaptations (Dahmer or Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez).
This Italian series created and directed by Stefano Sollima and Leonardo Fasoli, is based on the events that took place between 1968 and 1985 in Florence, Italy, to tell the story of a case that, until recently, remained open. It is a 4-episode miniseries that combines historical reconstruction and contemporary suspense.
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Synopsis of “The Monster of Florence”
For almost two decades in Florence, a serial killer spread terror by attacking young couples seeking privacy in isolated places. Throughout those years, several double homicidesalways with the same modus operandi, kept the authorities and the population in suspense, without ever offering a clear solution to the case.
The miniseries reconstruct this terrifying journey: the bodies found, the recurring weapon, the investigation that advances little by little while life continues normally around them.
In its plot, the series delves so much into the force of social fear as in the contradictions of the official investigation. It shows how, despite having clues and suspects, justice was unable to positively identify the culprit, leaving the case open and shrouding the story in uncertainty.
Beyond the crime itself, the production reflects on the time, the distant seventies and eighties in Italy, the sensitivity of the population and the network of power that surrounded the investigations. A disturbing look at a past that continues to resonate in the present.
Trailer for “The Monster of Florence”
Cast of “The Monster of Florence”
The cast of the Italian series is made up of:
- Leonard Mann as Andreas Ackerman
- Bettina Giovannini as Giulia
- Gabriele Tinti as Enrico
- Federico Pacifici as the Monster of Florence
- Lydia Mancinelli as the Monster’s mother
- Alberto Di Stasio as the Monster’s father
- Francesca Muzio as the adulteress
- Anna Orso as the mother of a Victim
- Antonio Ballerio as the investigator
- Giuseppe Mauro Cruciano as the Monster’s friend
- Stefania Dadda as the girl at the Party
- Maurizio Scattorin as the prosecutor
- Bruno Santini as the waiter/bartender
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