Italian director Paolo Taviani's
'Leonora Addio' will compete for the Golden Bear at the Berlin
Film Festival on February 10-16, organizers said Wednesday.
The film is an adaptation of the 1910 novella of the same name
by Nobel prize winning novelist Luigi Pirandello.
It also recounts the adventurous journey of the great writer's
ashes from Rome to his Agrigento home, and their eventual
interment 15 years after his death.
Paolo Taviani, 90, who until the death of his brother Vittorio
at 88 in 2018 was one part of the most successful Italian auteur
filmmaking partnership, said "it's really good news that the
Berlin Festival will be in person.
"Yes', it's a good challenge to the virus that is persecuting
us.
"It is cinema that is fighting and Berlin is a festival that
does not get discouraged and always seeks novelty in world
cinema".
At the Cannes Film Festival the Taviani brothers won the Palme
d'Or and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre Padrone in 1977 and the
Grand Prix du Jury for La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the
Shooting Stars, 1982).
In 2012 they won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International
Film Festival with Caesar Must Die.
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