You Laugh
– Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a hea..
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
18 Sep 1998
Italian
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Luigi Pirandello (stories), Paolo Taviani (screenplay), Vittorio Taviani (screenplay)
Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Cederna, Luca Zingaretti, Dario Cantarelli
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
1 win & 4 nominations.