LEONORA ADDIO

Director - Paolo Taviani

Script - Paolo Taviani

Camera - Paolo Carnera, Simone Zampagni

Music - Nicola Piovani

Cast - Fabrizio Ferracane, Matteo Pittiruti, Dania Marino, Dora Becker, Claudio Bigagli, Roberto Herlitzka

Producer - Donatella Palermo

Production - Stemal Entertainment, Luce Cinecittà, Cinemaundici, Rai Cinema

Leonora Addio narrates the stunning adventures of Pirandello’s ashes and the tortuous journey of his urn from Rome to Agrigento, leading up to his eventful burial that took place only fifteen years after his actual death. And beyond that, to Pirandello’s last story, written twenty days before his death, „The Nail”, in which the young Bastianeddu, torn from his mother’s arms in Sicily and forced to follow his father across the ocean, is incapable of healing the wound that drives him to an irrational gesture.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Berlin ’22 – FIPRESCI Award

Program

26.03.2022
VLAIKOVA CINEMA - 17.00 часа
28.03.2022
CINEGRAND - 19.30 часа
13.03.2022
LUMIERE CINEMA - 20.30 часа
25.03.2022
ODEON CINEMA - 20.30 часа

Paolo Taviani

Paolo Taviani – an Italian film director, came to cinema when quite young, alongside his older brother Vittorio Taviani (1929–2018). After working with Valentino Orsini especially as documentary filmmakers, screenplay writers, and feature film directors, they struck out on their own, directing, also together, The Subversives (1967). Consistent interpreters of a civically engaged cinema, in the second phase of their career, while continuing to represent the need and longing for utopia, they dedicated themselves to evoking the past and to adapting literary works to film. With Leonora addio (2022), Paolo, at 86 years of age, filmed for the first time completely on his own, and used the medium of cinema for his highly personal farewell to Vittorio and to the moviemaking they did together.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
1969 Under the Sign of Scorpio
1977 Padre Padrone
1982 The Night of the Shooting Stars
1984 Chaos
1987 Good Morning Babylon
2007 The Lark Farm
2012 Caesar Must Die
2015 Wondrous Boccaccio
2022 Leonora addio

LEONORA ADDIO

Italy, 2022, 90′, color, black and white, цветен, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Paolo Taviani