Paolo and Vittorio Taviani adapt to the screen five folkloric and political stories by Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello. The stories, filled with magic, drama, misery and hope, are set in Pirandello’s native Sicily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Filming on location in the region's still-wild landscapes, savoring the bird's-eye views of the raw and rocky terrain, returning to the world of childhood and listening closely to women's words, the Tavianis evoke the sources of Pirandello's inspiration and create a luminous, epic masterpiece.
Filmography: Leonora addio (2022), Wondrous Boccaccio (2015), Caesar Must Die (2012), Elective Affinities (1996), Fiorile (1993), Night Sun (1990), Good Morning Babilonia (1987), Kaos (1984), The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Father and Master (1977)
Screened as part of a double feature with the film Leonora addio by Paolo Taviani