Luigi Pirandello
Рождение : 1867-06-29, Girgenti, Sicily, Italy [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]
Смерть : 1936-12-10
История
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
Экранизация спектакля «Шесть персонажей в поисках автора» Луиджи Пиранделло.
Novel
Останки писателя и драматурга Луиджи Пиранделло везут из Рима на Сицилию.
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
Молодая супружеская пара Лаура и Джорджо очень любят друг друга и мечтают о ребёнке, но несмотря на свое желание, не могут дождаться первенца. Однажды Лаура становится жертвой изнасилования. Через некоторое время она узнаёт, что ждёт ребёнка. Джорджо и Лаура встанут перед непростым выбором. С одной стороны, мужчина, чувствующий себя униженным и оскорблённым, с другой стороны, страдающая женщина, с больной душой и непреодолимым желанием стать матерью. Какой выбор сделать, чтобы по-прежнему быть счастливыми?
Writer
Начало ХХ века, Рим. Профессор Мори нанимает для своего новорожденного сына кормилицу, молодую деревенскую женщину Аннетт. Она заботится о малыше, как о родном, но ее присутствие в доме вызывает у матери ребенка, Виктории, смутное беспокойство, постепенно перерастающее в панику. И тогда она ставит мужа перед выбором: "Или я, или кормилица". Чувственная мелодрама без модного истерического монтажа и примитивных супергероев, но с проработанным сюжетом, глубокими психологическими портретами персонажей, сильным внутренним драматизмом, тщательно продуманными деталями. Такой фильм сегодня — редчайшее событие...
Story
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
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
Маттиа Паскаль начинает новую жизнь под новым именем после того, как его ошибочно посчитали умершим. Он попадает в ловушку социальных условностей, которых так старался избежать, и решает "умереть" снова, чтобы вернуть свою прежнюю личность. К его ужасу, в жизни для него больше не находится места.
Novel
Пять историй, снятых по мотивам рассказов нобелевского лауреата в области литературы Луиджи Пиранделло, действующими лицами которых являются оборотень, феодальный помещик, крестьянин, призрак, мать и ее сыновья.
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
Сицилия, начало XX века. Адриана, влюбленная в красавца Чезаре, выходит замуж за его брата Антонио. Приличия требуют забыть о тайной страсти: Чезаре устраняется, и единственным выражением чувств для него остаются дорогие подарки Адриане и ее семье. Последний подарок – шикарный автомобиль – становится причиной смерти Антонио. Потрясенная Адриана ведет уединенную жизнь, и кажется, что несчастным влюбленным уже никогда не быть вместе. Но судьба дает им последний шанс: внезапная болезнь Адрианы помогает Чезере уговорить возлюбленную на поездку в Неаполь...
Writer
История о человеке, который случайно залез в большой винный кувшин, не смог оттуда выбраться и просидел там три дня.
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
A widowed man who has lived adoring the memory of his wife, discovers 15 years later that she was his best friend's lover.
Theatre Play
Большая часть фильма показывает Австрию времен Второй мировой войны, рассказывая историю о том, как доктор Паркер, известный хирург, встретил свою будущую жену, но одна ошибка изменит очень многое...
Novel
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
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
После смерти матери, разорившейся, чтобы обеспечить сыну достойную женитьбу, молодой, мягкий и слабохарактерный Матиас Паскаль остаётся один с нелюбимой женой и невыносимой тёщей. На время он исчезает, чтобы привести мысли в порядок. Он встречает незнакомца и с его помощью выигрывает в рулетку целое состояние. Возвращаясь домой, Матиас попадает прямиком на собственные похороны (его место в гробу занял утопленник, погибший в случайной драке). Матиас никому ничего не говорит и предпочитает снова исчезнуть.
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
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
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
Матиас Паскаль, лишившийся наследства из-за мошенника-управляющего, вынужденный пойти на скучнейшую работу, несчастливый в браке из-за ненавистной тёщи, а главное — всю жизнь мечтавший о свободе, однажды получает шанс осуществить свою мечту. Пока он был в отъезде, обнаружили труп утопленника. По ошибке посчитали, что это Матиас Паскаль.
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.
