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The first episode of the series “Vanina – A vice-chief in Catania” directed by Davide Marengo was broadcast yesterday, March 27, on channel 5. The cast features several actors from Mazara including the protagonist Giusy Buscemi, born in Mazara del Vallo in 1993 but raised in Menfi. Buscemi, winner of the 73rd edition of the Miss Italia 2012 beauty contest who has already acted in several films and television series, plays Vanina, short for Giovanna Guarrasi. Vanina in the TV series, which takes inspiration from the novel by the Sicilian writer Cristina Cassar Scalia, at the age of 14 loses her father, Giovanni Guarrasi, killed by a mafia commando.
The latter, who in the first episode appears in the opening scene in a photograph, is played by the Mazarese actor Davide Dolores who has acted several times in the fiction films Montalbano and Makari and in several films including 800 Days, Oscar, The White Rabbit’s Den and others. After her father’s death, Vanina decides to join the police to avenge him by arresting those guilty of his murder and to fight against the mafia. Guarrasi began her career in the Palermo anti-mafia flying squad but then moved to Catania where she began her activity in the homicide section.
The policewoman decides to change city also to forget the relationship she had with the anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Malfitano played by the actor Giorgio Marchesi. Among the extras in the series also the Mazarese comedian Francesco Ferrante aka Ciccioloso who in the first episode appears in a scene recorded in a nightclub. The other episodes of the series will be broadcast on April 3, 10 and 17 at 9.30 pm. It is possible to watch the first episode of Vanina on the Mediaset infinity platform (click here).
Caterina Mezzapelle
