It will be 90 years this December since celebrated ‘Six Characters In Search Of An Author’ playwright Luigi Pirandello was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in Stockholm in 1934. Actor and director Michele Placido’s Eternal Visionary uses the Italian playwright’s trip to the Swedish capital as the framework for a biopic exploring his turbulent inner and outer life, against the backdrop of his native Sicily, adopted home city of Rome as well as the cabarets of Berlin.

Fabrizio Bentivoglio stars as Pirandello opposite Federica Luna Vincenti as Marta Abba, the actress who was his muse from 1925 to his death in 1936, while his wife Antonietta Portulano, played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, was confined to a mental asylum. Further cast members include Giancarlo Commare, Aurora Giovinazzo, Michelangelo Placido and Ute Lemper