(25 September 2017) Folly, fiction, and truth – retracing Pirandello’s works at the Italian Institute of Culture of Stockholm. For the 150th anniversary of Pirandello’s birth, the cineforum “Omaggio a Pirandello – quattro film ispirati alle opera pirandelliane” (A tribute to Pirandello – four films inspired on ‘Pirandellian’ literature) with the screening of the films based on the author’s most famous works. The next film event will focus on Marco Bellocchio. On Monday October 2nd at 18:00, “Enrico IV” (Henry IV) (1984) starring Claudia Cardinale, Leopold Trieste, and Marcello Mastroianni will be screened at the IIC. The plot: during a masquerade ball, a young man falls from a horse and loses his reason, becoming the person he dresses up as: Henry IV. 20 years later, a psychiatrist attempts for the last time to fix the young man. Matilde is essential to the organisation of the experiment, whom Henry was madly in love with. (red)
