Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~52 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 8 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.
- inquisition
- monk
- based on novel or book
- heresy
- religious fundamentalism
- science vs religion
- murder mystery
- theological debate
- 14th century
- franciscan monk
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tchéky Karyo
- Greta Scarano
- Richard Sammel
- Stefano Fresi
- Roberto Herlitzka
- Fausto Maria Sciarappa
- Antonia Fotaras
- Benjamin Stender
- Claudio Bigagli
- Corrado Invernizzi
- Max Malatesta
- Directed
- Giacomo Battiato
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 119 ratings
- Network & studio
- Rai 1, 11 Marzo Film, Palomar, RAI, Tele München
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
