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Design for the transfer to the cinema screen of "Enrico IV" by Pirandello, for louis Jouvet and anton Giulio Bragaglia

1940

Client
Louis Jouvet, Anton Giulio Bragaglia.

Participant
Cesare Mercandino.

The idea was to use the script of Luigi Pirandello's Henry TV for a movie made up entirely of close ups of talking faces and talking hands, with no background. Ponti dedicated this screenplay to Jouvet and Anton Giulio Bragaglia.