Character Relationship Map: Leonora addio

Characters

• Delegato del comune di Agrigento (played by Fabrizio Ferracane) — protagonist

  The Agrigento municipal delegate travels to Rome to recover Luigi Pirandello's ashes and bring them back for a public celebration. He depends on assurances about an American military flight, searches...

• Luigi Pirandello (voce) (played by Roberto Herlitzka) — supporting

  Luigi Pirandello is the deceased writer whose Nobel recognition, death, funeral wishes, cremation, and delayed return to Sicily form the film's central historical thread. His voice also introduces a l...

• Comandante aereo (played by Giulio Pampiglione) — supporting

  The air commander oversees the proposed flight carrying Luigi Pirandello's ashes to Sicily. When passengers object to traveling with a dead man's remains, he argues against their superstition, but the...

• Bastianeddu (played by Matteo Pittiruti) — minor

  Bastianeddu is a frightened boy questioned six years after a Sicilian work group's first day. Adults ask whether he deliberately dropped a nail, leaving him caught between a possible crime and the vul...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Delegato del comune di Agrigento → Comandante aereo (Professional Transfer Officials) — They represent conflicting practical positions during the attempted air transfer.

  At the airfield, the Delegato relies on the promised American military flight, while the Comandante aereo argues about transporting the crate containi...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Luigi Pirandello (voce) → Bastianeddu (Narrative Narrator And Subject) — Pirandello's voice frames Bastianeddu's suspended story as part of the film's literary afterlife.

  The film presents the final tale as a story Luigi Pirandello once based on a Brooklyn news report, while Bastianeddu is the frightened boy at its cent...

• Luigi Pirandello (voce) → Delegato del comune di Agrigento (Narrative Custodian Of Legacy) — The Delegato becomes the public agent responsible for fulfilling Pirandello's posthumous return to Sicily.

  The Delegato del comune di Agrigento travels to Rome to recover Luigi Pirandello's ashes and bring them to Agrigento for a public celebration.

Story Analysis

The film follows Pirandello's ashes through institutional confusion and ends with a literary tale about uncertain identity, justice, and time.

Plot Progression

1. A Nobel Shadow — Luigi Pirandello receives the Nobel Prize in Sweden but experiences isolation and imagines aging and illness. After his death, officials debate how to handle his funeral.
2. Ashes Await Sicily — Pirandello's wishes demand a humble funeral, cremation, and a return to Sicily. Instead, the urn remains in a Roman cemetery through years of war and political violence.
3. The Lost Crate — The Delegato travels to Rome to recover the ashes and arrange their transfer. Passenger superstition stops the flight, and the crate disappears during the resulting confusion.
4. A Journey Without Dignity — The recovered crate travels with Sicilians who mistake it for an ordinary box and use it as a card table. They eventually return it and treat the ashes with greater care.
5. Monument and Unfinished Lives — Agrigento's authorities, students, and clergy dispute the urn's reception, producing another indignity through a child-sized coffin. Years later, the monument is ready before the film turns to Bastian...