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Storia di Piera
- Runtime:
- 105 min.
- Year of Production:
- 1982/83
- Country:
- Italien/Frankreich/Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- Cast:
- Marco Ferreri
Isabelle Huppert
Hannah (Hanna) Schygulla
Marcello Mastroianni
Angelo Infanti
Tanya Lopert
Bettina Grühn
Maurizio Donadoni - Production Company:
- Faso Film S.r.l.; Sara Films S.A.; Ascot Film GmbH
- Berlinale Section:
- Homage
- Berlinale Category:
- Feature Film
STORIA DI PIERA tells the story of a family, bound by archaic and unbreakable ties that supersede the laws of nature and age. The film portrays the relationship between a mother (Hanna Schygulla) and her daughter (Isabelle Huppert). The relationship is defined by friendship and sensuality. The girl declines school and discovers that theatre is the aim of her dreams. She has however the wish to be both a man and a woman. Her personality radiates strength and tenderness. Thanks to her unique attractiveness, she is loved and the object of wonder everywhere.
Hanna Schygulla plays a nymphomaniac and neurotic mother who still feels young. She destroys her family by plunging headlong into countless affairs and ends up in a psychiatric clinic. Her husband loses first his mind, then his life. Their daughter Piera is a precocious Lolita who is incapable of finding emotional fulfilment until she is well into adulthood and has embarked on a career as a stage actor. Hanna Schygulla received the Award for Best Female Actor at the Cannes film festival for her performance.
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