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Il Mostro tells the story of what has been called the “phantom” of the Italian judicial and criminal system, perpetrator of nine double murders between 1968 and 1985. Despite intensive investigations, the weapon employed in each murder — a 22 caliber Beretta — was never found and the killer never caught. This cold case is one of the longest and most complex Italian investigations into the first and most brutal serial killer in the country’s history: The Monster of Florence.

Sollima’s series is based on direct testimonies, procedural documents and journalistic investigations. It is all terribly true. “And telling the truth, and only that, is the only way to bring justice to the victims,” he says. “All 14, maybe more.”

The series was almost entirely shot from dusk to dawn, between Florence and its surrounding wilderness and the outskirts of Rome, in extremely low temperatures and with obsessive precision for ballistic trajectories, in the positioning of cars and corpses, with assistant directors and technical departments always on the edge.