L'ispettore Coliandro is a series of tongue-in-cheek Italian TV movies directed by Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti, written by Carlo Lucarelli, and starring Giampaolo Morelli. According to the cast and filmmakers, Coliandro is a "young-audience" crime series. Perhaps. In Italian fiction and shows like Il commissario Montalbano, policemen are law-abiding heroes. Inspector Coliandro saves the day with "luck and [his partner's] intuition." This partner is the only one who sees him as he does: as a hero worthy of American cop movies. The series' humor comes from the contrast between how Coliandro sees himself and how others do. Coliandro's name is a play on the Italian word coglione, which literally means "ball" but means "asshole" He must constantly fix its pronunciation.
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L'ispettore Coliandro is a series of tongue-in-cheek Italian TV movies directed by Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti, written by Carlo Lucarelli, and starring Giampaolo Morelli. According to the cast and filmmakers, Coliandro is a "young-audience" crime series. Perhaps. In Italian fiction and shows like Il commissario Montalbano, policemen are law-abiding heroes. Inspector Coliandro saves the day with "luck and [his partner's] intuition." This partner is the only one who sees him as he does: as a hero worthy of American cop movies. The series' humor comes from the contrast between how Coliandro sees himself and how others do. Coliandro's name is a play on the Italian word coglione, which literally means "ball" but means "asshole" He must constantly fix its pronunciation.
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