Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author

John Hurt heads a remarkable ensemble cast in this innovative production of Pirandello's classic play filmed here in stark black-and-white. A director and a group of actors shooting a film are interrupted by the arrival of six people?fictional characters in search of the writer who has abandoned them, unused and incomplete. They demand that their story be finished, and to persuade the audience, recount their dark, strange histories. The classic 1921 play has been theatrically compared to such award-winning productions as Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, and the 1960s drama, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead