The Shape of Water (La forma dell’acqua) is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the first novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series and the fourth of the RAI TV Montalbano films. The episode was almost entirely shot in Sampieri, the location of the factory Fornace Penna, so-called "La Mánnara".

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  • The Shape of Water (La forma dell’acqua) is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the first novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series and the fourth of the RAI TV Montalbano films. The episode was almost entirely shot in Sampieri, the location of the factory Fornace Penna, so-called "La Mánnara". Silvio Luparello, an engineer, developer and aspiring politician from an aristocratic construction family dies of a heart attack while having sex with his nephew and lover Giorgio at his beach house. The nephew panics and wanting to protect his uncle from the embarrassing circumstance of his death, and not trusting himself to be able to move his uncle's body due to his epilepsy, calls his uncles friend and political crony, Attorney Rizzo, for help. Attorney Rizzo assures the nephew he will take care of it and then instead of trying to help attempts to take advantage of the situation by betraying his friendship with Luparello by attempting to use his death to gain leverage over his political opponent, Secretary Cusumano, by attempting to cast Cusumano's Swedish daughter-in-law Ingrid as Luparello's lover and implicating her in his death at the scene of a seamy outdoor brothel. The film version starts off the morning after the death at the outdoor brothel with two surveyors working as garbage collectors. They discover the body and attempt to contact Attorney Rizzo in an attempt to curry favor with him and maybe get surveyor jobs by giving him the chance to move Luparello's body to avoid the embarrassment of Luparello being found at the outdoor brothel, dead with his pants down. Rizzo rebuffs the garbage men, much to their surprise as he is known to be Luparello's friend and ally. Meanwhile one of the garbage men finds Ingrid's very valuable solid gold jewel encrusted necklace planted by Rizzo's Ingrid look alike as part of the frame up. The hand bag with her initials where she normally kept the necklace was also planted at the outdoor brothel in case somebody walked off with the necklace. Montalbano with the help of his boy hood friend and outdoor brothel pimp, Gege, and also with the help of Luparello's wife who tips Montalbano to the fact that somebody must have dressed Luparello because his underware were on inside out, figures out that the garbage men have the necklace and also that Attorney Rizzo is the bad guy. Montalbano initially suspects Ingrid's involvement because of her sort of formerly sexual, now not sexual lover relationship with Luparello, but she convinces Montalbano that she wasn't involved and Montalbano destroys the planted evidence against her and makes sure that Rizzo pays a reward for the necklace so that the garbage man and his wife can send their sick child out of the country for medical treatment. The story wraps up with Montalbano playing God by ignoring a gun that he finds in the beach house giving Giorgio the opportunity to revenge his uncle's betrayal by beating and killing Rizzo. In the end though Giorgio too dies in a car accident after previously having had one due to an epileptic seizure that required him to wear the neck brace which we assume is the same one that Montalbano found at the outdoor brothel which we assume was used by Rizzo and the Ingrid look alike to make Luparello appear to be alive during the act at the outdoor brothel.
  • Die Form des Wassers ist ein Kriminalroman des italienischen Schriftstellers Andrea Camilleri, der 1994 im Verlag Sellerio Editore erschienen ist. Die deutsche Übersetzung durch Shahrzad Assemi erschien 1999 bei Lübbe. Im selben Jahr wurde Andrea Camilleri für diesen Roman mit dem französischen Prix Mystère de la critique ausgezeichnet. Es handelt sich um den ersten Roman einer Serie von Krimis mit der Figur des Commissario Montalbano, die alle auf Sizilien spielen. Er wurde 2000 durch den Fernsehsender RAI mit Luca Zingaretti in der Hauptrolle verfilmt und in Deutschland unter dem Titel Tiefer Fall 2001 vom ZDF ausgestrahlt. Regie führte Alberto Sironi.
  • La forma dell'acqua è un romanzo di Andrea Camilleri, pubblicato nel 1994, dalla casa editrice Sellerio Editore di Palermo. È il primo romanzo della serie incentrata sulle avventure del Commissario Montalbano da cui è stato tratto anche un omonimo film tv, prodotto dalla Rai nel 2000, con Luca Zingaretti nella parte del Commissario.
  • Vattnets form är en roman av Andrea Camilleri, utgiven i Italien år 1994. Italienska originalets titel är La forma dell'acqua. Barbro Andersson översatte romanen till svenska 2000. Romanen är den första i serien om Komissarie Montalbano och har även filmats för TV.
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  • The Shape of Water (La forma dell’acqua) is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the first novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series and the fourth of the RAI TV Montalbano films. The episode was almost entirely shot in Sampieri, the location of the factory Fornace Penna, so-called "La Mánnara".
  • Die Form des Wassers ist ein Kriminalroman des italienischen Schriftstellers Andrea Camilleri, der 1994 im Verlag Sellerio Editore erschienen ist. Die deutsche Übersetzung durch Shahrzad Assemi erschien 1999 bei Lübbe. Im selben Jahr wurde Andrea Camilleri für diesen Roman mit dem französischen Prix Mystère de la critique ausgezeichnet. Es handelt sich um den ersten Roman einer Serie von Krimis mit der Figur des Commissario Montalbano, die alle auf Sizilien spielen.
  • La forma dell'acqua è un romanzo di Andrea Camilleri, pubblicato nel 1994, dalla casa editrice Sellerio Editore di Palermo. È il primo romanzo della serie incentrata sulle avventure del Commissario Montalbano da cui è stato tratto anche un omonimo film tv, prodotto dalla Rai nel 2000, con Luca Zingaretti nella parte del Commissario.
  • Vattnets form är en roman av Andrea Camilleri, utgiven i Italien år 1994. Italienska originalets titel är La forma dell'acqua. Barbro Andersson översatte romanen till svenska 2000. Romanen är den första i serien om Komissarie Montalbano och har även filmats för TV.
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