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War (Original title: Quando si comprende) is a short story by Italian playwright and dramatist Luigi Pirandello first published in the short story collection Un Cavallo nella Luna in 1918. [1] The story follows a discussion between parents of soldiers in the First World War about how they deal with grief.
Luigi Pirandello claimed to have Greek origins in an interview to Kostas Ouranis in 1934. His father, Stefano Pirandello, belonged to a wealthy family involved in the sulphur industry, and his mother, Caterina Ricci Gramitto, was also of a well-to-do background, descending from a family of the bourgeois professional class of Agrigento.
Pages in category "Films based on works by Luigi Pirandello" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Luigi Pirandello (play) Marco Bellocchio Tonino Guerra: Produced by: Enzo Porcelli Renzo Rossellini: Starring: Marcello Mastroianni Claudia Cardinale: Cinematography: Giuseppe Lanci: Edited by: Mirco Garrone: Music by: Astor Piazzolla
Kaos (originally Chaos in the US) is a 1984 Italian anthology drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936). The film's title is after Pirandello's explanation of the local name Càvusu of the woods near his birthplace in the neighborhood of Girgenti (Agrigento), on the southern coast of Sicily, as deriving from the ancient Greek ...
The Voyage (Italian: Il viaggio; also released as The Journey) is a 1974 romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, based on the short story Il viaggio by Luigi Pirandello. It was De Sica's final film.
Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
Background [ edit ] Since seeing a Paris production of Pirandello's play Sei personnaggi in cerca d'autore , L'Herbier had been eager to collaborate with the author on a film of one of his works, but hitherto Pirandello had been unwilling to give permission for any adaptations because he would not accept the compromises that were asked of him.