ETERNL VISIONARY + Cocktail

ETERNAL VISIONARY |
Eterno Visionario

By Michele Placido

Italy - Belgium, 2024, 112'

1934: On a train to Stockholm, where he will shortly receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Italian playwright and novelist Luigi Pirandello, relives his fascination with the figures who populated his life and also inspired his art. He reminisces about his controversial stance towards fascism, his turbulent bond with his children, the painful mental illness of his wife, and his love for Marta Abba, the young actress who became his muse and lover. A captivating story that unfolds between Rome, the Stockholm of the Nobel Prizes, the Berlin of Kurt Weill, the backward Sicily of archaic landscapes. Eternal Visionary concentrates on one phase of Pirandello’s career in order to show the playwright’s more intimate side in a vivid and authentic portrait of an eternal visionary.

Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Federica Luna Vincenti, Giancarlo Commare, Aurora Giovinazzo, Michelangelo Placido, Michele Placido, Ute Lemper, Mino Manni, Marcello Mazzarella, Dajana Roncione, Guia Jelo, Cele Abba.

Festival & awards: Rome Film Fest 2024: Grand Public.

Host or Publisher Italian Film Focus 2024