The game of mirrors by Andrea Camilleri

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The eyes of a poliziotto , but not necessarily the truth – sometimes them is tricked into a different reality, without being able to notice it. This explains commissario Salvo Montalbano his hardworking staff Fazio after he has realized that he is obviously out continually duped.

“Camilleri racconta,” a two-minute monologue that the broadcasts on Rai Uno precedes explains Camilleri principle and title of his eighteenth Montalbano mysteries with the following episode: a friend had a relationship with a married woman; at a dinner in threes the carefully kept secret affair flew because the husband saw by chance in a mirror as the other two kissed in his back.

And he refers to the legendary final scene of Orson Welles’ film classic “The Lady from Shanghai” (1947): The two main characters move through the hall of mirrors of an amusement park, often reflected, and no one can tell where the real people are and what only their mirror images.

thinks of this scene and the commissario , as obviously someone searches distract his investigations over again in a different direction by zuspielt him false clues.

Here appears at the beginning all quite transparent: Before a storage room in a side street a bomblets blew up – determined as a final warning for one who has failed to pay his protection money. However, the camp was empty, minimal damage, and the owner, Angelino Arnone, vehemently denies to have been threatened.

Galt the warning Explosiönchen perhaps a neighbor? Next door live Carlo Nicotra, one of the key men in the local mafia clan of Sinagra, and, next door, which is also relevant reputable and convicted Stefano Tallarita, which sells for Nicotra drugs.

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But the former would be back as a small fireworks with very different calibres to the body, Tallarita sits just one in a well-secured cell, and his wife and his son Arturo have nothing to do with his dirty business.

Do the first theory to be resuscitated when Angelino Arnone brings an anonymous letter to the police station and now the aim admits, but the Anschlägchens to have been? Montalbano does not believe Arnone, because he makes an uncertain impression and appears unaware of who could stand behind the message and the threat and why it should ever be threatened. He acts like remote controlled …

Then again theory win number two in importance: in prison is rumored to have Stefano Tallarita be wide propose to cooperate with the authorities. Such a suggestion would have the honorable society, in fact stifle immediately with a warning shot to pull affected without innocent relatives. . But the rumor is unfounded

While Montalbano suspects that he is herumgelotst in a hall of mirrors, and Fazio puts into the picture, put the puppet masters gradually stage a warning to the investigators themselves: Man fires at his Automobile. Montalbano notes, however nothing about it; Fazio later showed him the bullet holes on the passenger side …

Private is faced with Salvo pleasant questions. Every morning he takes the indestructible Fiat Punto his neighbor Liliana Lombardo in the city, was apparently damaged by vandals since her car (Her husband is traveling.). The confidences between the two are set up; Liliana makes Salvo beautiful eyes, goes out with him in sensational manner, told him about the alienation in their marriage and admits to him that a short-term lover have probably demolished by her car out of revenge after she had broken up with him. ‘

Montalbano Unfortunately discovers that he is already out on thin ice: Liliana always receives the lovers still too early hours in their house while he himself apparently used not as a lover, but rather as a kind of alibi or protector shall be. But apparently Montalbano itself is a skilled trapper …

The two storylines flow unexpectedly into each other when the commissario to find out who is Liliana’s lover Arturo Tallarita, the son of jailed drug dealer. Soon he will understand that all the actions that have been confused him indirectly aimed at the two lovers. Through the Looking Glass but runs a very big deal, in which the rival clan is involved the Cuffaro. Liliana and Arturo are no more than little pawns in these maneuvers that make them end up in greatest danger. Although Montalbano finally sees through the mirror game, he does not succeed but to keep the two in front of a tragic fate.

I was completely happy with this film do not end. It teems encounters evidence accidents shots, false leads, subsequent corrections, and if the complicated conspiracy against Liliana and Arturo including background history of the rivalry between the Cuffaro and Sinagra comes in the last third to light the complexity increases the needs to durchzublicken action and the number of people involved so to that one Montalbano’s statements very good listener. Or one reads the book in peace. In May 2016 published in German translation: “

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• actor Luca Zingaretti must deliver some showpieces:

– to get much of an important information, Montalbano calls at the office and are cheeky one onorevole , a member of commissione parlamentare – a delicious parody of a disguised voice, pompous title fuss and arrogant-intimidating style of speech including the respective facial expressions

-. One of the maneuvers is that the commentator on local TV transmitter responsible commissario in person a failure reviles his anger at compensated Salvo in Enzo’s beach restaurant by enjoying a huge antipasto of freshly caught seafood His comment:.. “Vorrebbero dodici stronzi come questo per farmi passare l’appetito “… <

– In contrast, the old Grantler shines like a Cheshire cat, as it caresses the attractive Liliana and ensnared – the conversion even falls on Catarella

•. always a treat are the sarcastic sayings of misanthropic coroner dottor Pasquano who just hate the heat as premature questions of the commissario . “> Forse potrei esserle utile. Come sette nani?” “No, Montalbano could the dottore the identity of the dead and his parents call. But Pasquano poisoned back: “A me dei genitori non me ne fotte ni-ennte.” – produce pressed with all my heart and appropriately cut with opposite arm movements

• Sicilian popular theater provide its best as is often the secondary characters.. For example Concetta Lodico, Liliana Lombardo domestic help see that Salvo and Fazio. “Cuncetta Lodico era ‘na Cinquantina grassa, dalla Facci s’accapiva che era’ na fìmmina azzuffatera, non doviva stari un minuto senza attaccari turilla con qualichiduno.> Che voliti? <...> e io che Haio, tempo as perdiri a parlari con vui? ‘ “So begins the book’s memorable encounter of the two police officers with this incredible, ruthless woman whose dialect is a science in itself. Liliana Lombardo was a “gran buttana” and ” ‘u marito,’ u curnutu”. But how she recites the – big gestures, expressive facial expressions, dynamics from whisper to thunder: an operatic aria about five minutes! Her own father – another original – it has shown the door, where he grumbles: “Io cu iddra non ci parlo e non ci voglio parlari … ‘Sta disgraziata non voli che fumo la pipa’ n casa … ci fa puzza.. “<

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• The movie in the Italian original: DVD “Il gioco degli specchi” in “

• the movie in German synchronization DVD “Das maze of Spiegel” at”

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