''Strangeness'' () is a 2022 Italian

comedy-drama Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, il ...

film directed by

Roberto Andò Roberto Andò (born 11 January 1959) is an Italian director, screenwriter, playwright and author. Life and career Born in Palermo, Andò debuted as assistant director, working with Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, Michael Cimino and F ...

. The film won four

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David (Donatello, bronze), David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (the Academy of Italian Cin ...

awards, for best original screenplay, best producer, best production designer and best costumes. It was also awarded the

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

of the Year.

Plot

In 1920, Luigi Pirandello ( Toni Servillo) is invited to Sicily for the occasion of the 80th birthday of his mentor, famous novelist and playwright

Giovanni Verga Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian Literary realism, realist (''Verismo (literature), verista'') writer. His novels ''I Malavoglia'' (1881) and ''Mastro-don Gesualdo'' (1889) are widel ...

. He meets various strange personalities and a mix of melancholy and distant memories sets the ground for creating his masterpiece, ''

Six Characters in Search of an Author ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' ( ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it p ...

''.

Cast

* Toni Servillo as

Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; ; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italians, Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ...

* Salvatore Ficarra as Sebastiano "Bastiano" Vella *

Valentino Picone Salvatore Ficarra (born 27 May 1971, in Palermo) and Valentino Picone (born 23 March 1971, in Palermo) are an Italian comedy duo who work on stage, films, television and books as Ficarra e Picone. Life and career They started in 1993 along w ...

as Onofrio "Nofrio" Principato * as Santina Vella *Rosario Lisma as Mimmo Casà *

Donatella Finocchiaro Donatella Finocchiaro (born 16 November 1970) is an Italian actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films since 2002. She starred in '' The Wedding Director'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festiva ...

as Maria Antonietta * Aurora Quattrocchi as Maria Stella, the nanny *

Galatea Ranzi Galatea Ranzi (born 24 January 1967) is an Italian film, stage and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Ranzi studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, graduating in 1988.Giorgio Dell'Arti, Mass ...

as the mother *

Fausto Russo Alesi Fausto Russo Alesi (born 13 October 1973) is an Italian actor and theatre director. Biography Born in Palermo, Russo Alesi moved to Milan to study acting, graduating in 1996 from the Paolo Grassi Drama School. He worked for several years at the ...

as the father * Aldo Failla as Tano * Giordana Faggiano as the stepdaughther *

Tuccio Musumeci Tuccio Musumeci (born 20 April 1934) is an Italian actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Catania, Musumeci started his career in the 1960s, performing in local cabarets and avanspettacolo companies.Santino Mirabella. ''In scena - conversa ...

as Calogero Interrante *

Luigi Lo Cascio Luigi Lo Cascio (born 20 October 1967) is an Italian actor. He won the David di Donatello as best actor for his starring role in '' I cento passi''. In 2012, he debuted as film director and writer with '' La città ideale''. Filmography Films ...

as the capocomico *

Renato Carpentieri Renato Carpentieri (born 2 April 1943) is an Italian actor, stage director and playwright. Life and career Born in Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Carpentieri studied architecture in Naples, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organizati ...

References

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* * 2022 comedy films Films about dramatists and playwrights Luigi Pirandello Films directed by Roberto Andò Films set in Sicily Films with screenplays by Massimo Gaudioso Medusa Film films {{2020s-Italy-film-stub