

9.0100 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestHospitalized after the shooting, Biagio Schiro is recovering from his injuries. Toto Riina, sentenced to life imprisonment, but hopes the sentence gets revoked in the high court. A new judge is going to be appointed head of the investigating center of Palermo. Two men are nominated: Giovanni Falcone and Meli Antonino. Against all odds, Meli wins.
Acting
Claudio Gioè's Riina: banal, terrifying, never theatrical
Direction
Strips mafia romance bare — this is accounting with corpses
Creators
Domenico Starnone, Claudio Fava, Stefano Bissi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Riina died in prison in 2017 while this was in production; the production had to navigate active grief and fury in Corleone itself.
Claudio Gioè spent months studying Riina's actual voice recordings — the flat, almost sleepy delivery was deliberate, copied from wiretaps of the real 'U Curtu'.