The Young Montalbano (Seasons 1–2)

The Young Montalbano (Il Giovane Montalbano, 2012) is an Italian crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, the series is a prequel to the long-running Commissario Montalbano, based on Andrea Camilleri's novels, with Michele Riondino stepping into the young Salvo's shoes.

Early 1990s Sicily. Salvo Montalbano is a deputy inspector posted in a small mountain town, impatient with paperwork and sharp at reading people in ways his superiors find inconvenient. A transfer to Vigata — his birthplace — brings him closer to the sea he craves and sets in motion the team and the life he will carry into the original series. Each episode drops him into a new case rooted in the island's silence codes, clan loyalties, and hidden family grudges.

Fans of the original series get to see where the man came from; newcomers get a self-contained Sicilian detective drama with real atmosphere. Stream The Young Montalbano (2012) online on iFILM.