Luigi Pirandello
Nacimiento : 1867-06-29, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]
Muerte : 1936-12-10
Historia
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, best known for his many acclaimed stage plays and several successful novels such as The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926). He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."
Pirandello's works include about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. His first major play, Right You Are (if You Think You Are) (1917), explored the relativity of truth, a lifelong subject for Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) contrasted art and life; it was followed by the tragedy Henry IV (1922). His other plays include Each in His Own Way (1924) and Tonight We Improvise (1930). He established the Teatro d’Arte in Rome and toured the world with his company (1925–27). Nearly all of Pirandello's plays were translated into English by the actor Robert Rietti.
Original Story
On a set filled with tension, a nervous director tries to shoot a horror movie. Meanwhile, six strangers suddenly appear who tell their story, explaining that they are the characters of the script left by a dead author.
Novel
Una historia de tres funerales surrealistas de Pirandello entrelazados con el asesinato de un joven inmigrante siciliano en Brooklyn por lo que se describe como una narrativa surrealista, grotesca y compleja.
Novel
A train station in Sicily. There are two people in the waiting room: one is “the man with the flower in his mouth” in the film's title, who has confronted and threatened a mysterious woman outside the station. The other is “the peaceful customer,” who missed his train because of presents for the women in his family which hindered him as he ran and made him trip on the train tracks. The man with the flower in his mouth has helped the peaceful customer and immediately establishes a relationship of trust and empathy with him. The two recount their lives, but whereas the peaceful man talks about his frustrations, the man with the flower in his mouth keeps steering the conversation toward just one topic: death. Everything seems wrapped in mystery, starting with the identity of the woman outside the station...
Novel
Writer
A principios del siglo veinte, Italia está agitada por violentos problemas sociales. Las emigraciones internas dejan vacíos los campos convirtiendo las ciudades en lugares turbulentos. La falta de trabajo exaspera a los hombres, al tiempo que alimenta la miseria y la desesperación. Ante tal situación, la burguesía defiende el orden social por medio de la represión policial. Los intelectuales se preguntan sobre las causas y los efectos de la miseria.
Story
Film que consta de dos episodios. En el primero, ambientado en la Roma de los años 30, Felice, un barítono que se ha tenido que retirar por problemas de corazón, trabaja como contable y vive sumido en la frustración. Ríe por las noches en sueños, aunque luego es incapaz de recordar el porqué. El segundo se centra en el secuestro de un chico de doce años en la Sicilia actual. (FILMAFFINITY)
Book
Short Story
Four nuns are raped by a group of lepers. Although they all turn out to be pregnant, their status is hidden from them in the convent.
Novel
Inspirada en la conocida novela de Luigi Pirandello "El difunto Matias Pascal". El protagonista, a quien todos dan por muerto en su pueblo, viaja a Montecarlo y gana una considerable suma de dinero jugando a la ruleta, situación que aprovechará para cambiar de identidad y empezar una nueva vida recorriendo Europa. Años más tarde, hastiado de una vida que lo obliga al aislamiento, regresará a su pueblo natal.
Novel
Adaptación cinematográfica de cinco hermosos relatos del escritor seciliano Luigi Pitandello.
Novel
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Writer
A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for an author to tell their tragic story. An adaptation of the classic Luigi Pirandello play, updated to take place in a 1970s television studio.
Writer
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his impassivity tested when he has to duel his wife's frustrated paramour.
Story
Sicilia, finales del siglo XIX. Adriana (Sophia Loren) y César (Richard Burton) se han amado durante años, pero el peso de la tradición es tan fuerte que ella, por acuerdo de las familias de ambos, termina casándose con el hermano menor de César. Sin embargo, ése no será el único revés que tendrán que afrontar.
Writer
Writer
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, written by Luigi Pirandello about the relationship between authors, their characters and theater practitioners. The story follows six characters: Il Padre (Romolo Valli), la Figliastra (Rossella Falk), la Madre (Elsa Albani), Il Figlio (Piero Sammataro), la bambina (Patrizia Ponzelli) and Il giovinello(Paolo Figna) that invading a essay by a theater company looking for an author.
Writer
Dutch tv registration of Luigi Pirandello's classic play Enrico IV, or Hendrik IV.
Story
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Author
Un hombre recuerda con devoción a su esposa muerta sin saber que su mejor amigo es el verdadero padre de quien cree su hija.
Theatre Play
Berlín, 1945. Un médico del ejército americano se casa con una joven pianista, pero ella queda atrapada en la zona soviética de la ciudad. Tendrán que pasar muchos años hasta que las circunstancias les permitan reunirse de nuevo.
Novel
Basada en cuatro relatos de Luigi Pirandello; "La tinaja", "El abanico", "El certificado" y "Un frac estrecho".
Author
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Theatre Play
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Theatre Play
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Screenplay
A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.
Novel
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
Story
Novel
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
Theatre Play
Zara es una mujer que sufre amnesia desde hace años y se reencuentra con su marido Bruno sin saber la relación que les une. Poco a poco ella vuelve a enamorarse de él.
Novel
A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
Theatre Play
A dying man meets a stranger at a bar.
Original Story
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor. His friends and relatives choose to play along, dressing up as medieval courtiers, but is di Nolli truly mad, or just pretending? The art direction was by Hermann Warm. It was shot on location in Italy. 6 acts, 1856 meters.
Novel
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.
Story
In a sleazy cigar and newspaper store in Rome, an old newsagent nicknamed "Papa Re" sells his wares, warmed only by an earthenware heater that his granddaughter brings him each evening. One day, the stove falls from his hand and breaks into a thousand pieces. The same evening, when he opens the kiosk, he finds inside a woman, huddled up, with her little daughter in her arms: it is Rosalba Vignas, a singer-songwriter who has been chased away by her lover, Cesare le Milanese, who fell in love with his younger colleague.
