Luigi Pirandello

Writing

Luigi Pirandello

Born — Died

1867-06-29 — 1936-12-10

Place of birth

Girgenti, Sicily, Italy [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

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 C…

Known for

Henry IV poster
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After a fall from a horse, a 20th-century nobleman remains convinced that he is Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor in the 11th century. For more than twenty years, his family indulge his madness, until his nephew and former companions decide to cure him once and for all. But their attempt reveals a reality far more destabilizing and tragic than they could have imagined.

Henry IV

1979

The Nanny poster
6.6

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.

The Nanny

1999

The Rules of the Game poster
8.0

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.

The Rules of the Game

1975

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth poster
6.8

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

1993

Así te deseo poster
9.0

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

Así te deseo

1948

Nøgen poster
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Ersilla arrives almost lifeless when she seeks out the famous writer Ludovico Nota at his boarding house. It quickly becomes apparent that she has turned to prostitution in despair after her fiancé Franco cheated on her.

Nøgen

1964

Behind the camera

Henry IV poster
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After a fall from a horse, a 20th-century nobleman remains convinced that he is Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor in the 11th century. For more than twenty years, his family indulge his madness, until his nephew and former companions decide to cure him once and for all. But their attempt reveals a reality far more destabilizing and tragic than they could have imagined.

Henry IV

1979

The Nanny poster
6.6

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.

The Nanny

1999

The Rules of the Game poster
8.0

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.

The Rules of the Game

1975

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth poster
6.8

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

1993

Así te deseo poster
9.0

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

Así te deseo

1948

Nøgen poster
NR

Ersilla arrives almost lifeless when she seeks out the famous writer Ludovico Nota at his boarding house. It quickly becomes apparent that she has turned to prostitution in despair after her fiancé Franco cheated on her.

Nøgen

1964

Six Characters in Search of An Author poster
6.5

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.

Six Characters in Search of An Author

1976

Il berretto a sonagli poster
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Donna Beatrice is determined to expose her husband's alleged affair with the beautiful wife of the scribe Ciampa. The woman, heedless of her own family peace and the reputation of the scribe, who tries in vain to stop her, carries out a plan that does not confirm the adultery but, on the contrary, causes a huge scandal. Ciampa finds himself "forced," finding no other solution, to kill the two alleged lovers, driven by Beatrice's "madness." It is precisely from this "madness," however, that Ciampa will find a way to free himself from dishonor and a crime committed lightly.

Il berretto a sonagli

1981

Každý má svou pravdu poster
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A comedy about how extremely difficult it is to uncover the truth through gossip and rumors. Live broadcast of Pirandello's comedy from the Dejvice Theater on the tenth anniversary of ČT art... The Ponzos are strange. They moved in recently, don't socialize with anyone, and what's more, no one has ever seen Mrs. Ponza. Rumor has it that her husband has forbidden her to leave the house and see her mother, though it's not clear that it's really her mother. The question arises as to whether Mr. Ponza or his mother-in-law are crazy.

Každý má svou pravdu

2023

In cerca d'autore. Studio sui Sei personaggi poster
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The study of “Six Characters in search of an author” that Luca Ronconi conducted for three years in his summer creative workshop with the students of the National Academy of Dramatic Art.

In cerca d'autore. Studio sui Sei personaggi

2012

Suicider poster
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Drama. Zagreb at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Officer Ivan Meznar returns home from prison, but his wife and friends do not welcome him as he expected. Convinced that there is no other way out, this honorable man decides to commit suicide, but in the idyll of his native Zagorje, he meets the love of his early youth, which again puts him to the test. Vanca Kljakovic wrote the play Suicide based on Luigi Pirandello's novel Sun and Shadow.

Suicider

1985

Henry IV poster
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Dutch tv registration of Luigi Pirandello's classic play Enrico IV, or Hendrik IV.

Henry IV

1965

L'abito nuovo poster
6.0

In Naples, where the modest clerk Michele Crispucci lives with his daughter Assuntina, his ex-wife arrives with her circus. The young Concettino confides to a friend that he wants to give up his marriage to Assuntina, because twenty years earlier the girl's mother had abandoned the family and become rich by giving herself to wealthy lovers.

L'abito nuovo

1964

Enrico IV poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Enrico IV

1967

Sweet Lemon poster
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A man returns from the Italian countryside to reunite with his former lover, now a successful singer, only to find their reunion far different from what he expected.

Sweet Lemon

1972

Six Characters in Search of an Author poster
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An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are interrupted by the arrival of six strange people. The Director, furious at the interruption, demands an explanation. The Father explains that they are unfinished characters in search of an author to finish their story...

Six Characters in Search of an Author

1977

Tout pour le mieux poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Tout pour le mieux

1969