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HENRY IV

ENRICO IV

By Marco BELLOCCHIO

VIGGO SRL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, ITALY

Book adaptation - Completed 1984

Marcello Mastroianni is masterful in the solid film adaptation of Pirandello's tricky play about the nature of sanity, madness and fantasy.

- Year of production
- 1984
- Genres
- Book adaptation, Drama
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Marco BELLOCCHIO
- Writer(s)
- Marco BELLOCCHIO, Tonino GUERRS
- Cast
- Marcello MASTROIANNI, Claudia CARDINALE, Leopoldo TRIESTE
- Producer(s)
- Enzo PORCELLI (Odissya)
- Synopsis
- Luigi Pirandello’s masterful hall-of-mirrors tragicomedy receives a shrewd screen adaptation, featuring Mastroianni at his dynamic best. He relishes the role of an aristocratic 20th-century madman who has lived under the decades-long delusion that he is the titular Holy Roman Emperor. When he receives a visit from a group of old acquaintances, including his former paramour (Claudia Cardinale), it disrupts his carefully cultivated fantasy. Of course, this being Pirandello, all is not as it seems… Probing themes of madness vs. sanity, truth vs. illusion, Henry IV toys brilliantly with the slippery nature of reality.