Where it was filmed 'Monterossi'

Based on the novels by Alessandro Robecchi, Questa non è una canzone d’amore and Di rabbia e di vento (published by Sellerio), the series’ main character Carlo Monterossi (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) lives in an apartment in a neighbourhood of old Milan inexorably fated to disappear. While the apartment is decorated in vintage style, the director intended the new Milan to be seen through the windows, symbolically represented by the skyscrapers on modern piazza Gae Aulenti and the futuristic green areas of the residential building Bosco Verticale. The effect suggests a fortress, surrounded by encroaching modernity whose cranes and seductive lights seem to advance further forward every day.

Accentuated by the music of Bob Dylan, there is a touch of melancholy, the same found on Monterossi’s face, when the story moves to some of the Lombard city’s historical areas. Monterossi’s investigations take him to the Navigli, famous for its nightlife, terraced houses, little bridges linking the canal banks and pebbled side alleys. The epilogue of events from Questa non è una storia d’amore unfold on the bridge of St. Christopher that crosses the Naviglio Grande at the end of episode 3.

The city’s monumental cemetery, the resting place for many illustrious characters including Alessandro Manzoni, Francesco Sforza, Ludovico il Moro and, more recently, Eugenio Montale, Luchino Visconti, Enzo Biagi, is at the centre of the investigation that unfolds over the following three episodes, Di rabbia e di vento, focussing on the world of prostitution and a mysterious treasure.

Monterossi: locations in Season 2

The second season of the series produced by Palomar in collaboration with Prime Video sees Monterossi fleeing “Crazy Love” and searching for some justice; he finds himself mixed up in a series of inexplicable murders that are all linked by a strange ritual and causing panic in Milan. Three youths, who fatefully meet in the multi-ethnic, working-class melting pot of piazza Selinunte, seem to be connected to the strange events. Two killers, commissioned by a man in fear for his life, make a last-ditch journey to Reggio Calabria in search of an assassin who has disappeared.

In addition to Fabrizio Bentivoglio, the cast of season 2 features Diego Ribon, Donatella Finocchiaro, Martina Sammarco, Luca Nucera, with Tommaso Ragno, Francesca Inaudi, Alessandro Fella, Giordana Faggiano, Beatrice Schiros, Marina Occhionero, Maurizio Lombardi, Gabriele Falsetta, Keta, Jenny De Nucci, Silvia Briozzo, Giuseppe Ippoliti, the participation of Maria Paiato, and the extraordinary participation of Carla Signoris.