Here is the trailer for "Volevo nascondermi," the film about Antonio Ligabue starring Elio Germano as the painter

The film Volevo nascondermi (I Wanted to Hide), the feature-length biography about Antonio Ligabue (Zurich, 1899 - Gualtieri, 1965), will be released in theaters on February 27. Meanwhile, the distribution company, 01 Distribution, has released the trailer for the film, which you can see below:

The film stars Giorgio Diritti as director and Elio Germano as Ligabue. It is in competition at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Below is the synopsis: I wanted to hide...I was an outcast man, a lonely child, an asylum nut, but I wanted to be loved. Toni, the son of an Italian emigrant, rejected in Italy from Switzerland where he spent a difficult childhood and adolescence, lives for years in a hut by the river, never giving in to loneliness, cold and hunger. His meeting with sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati is the opportunity to reconnect with painting; it is the beginning of a redemption in which he feels that art is the only means of building his identity, the real possibility of being recognized and loved by the world. “El Tudesc,” as people call him is a lonely, rakish, ugly man, often mocked and humiliated. He will become the imaginative painter who paints his fantasy world of tigers, gorillas and jaguars while standing on the banks of the Po. Overwhelmed by a regime that wants to “hide” the different and a victim of his anxieties, he is locked up in an asylum. There, too, he shortly resumes painting. Most of all, Toni paints himself, as if to confirm his desire to exist beyond the many rejections he has suffered since childhood. His release from the Psychiatric Hospital is the turning point for redemption and public recognition of his talent. Fame allows him to flaunt an achieved well-being and open his gaze to the life and feelings he had always repressed. His works prove over time to be a gift to the entire community, the gift of his diversity.

Here is the trailer for "Volevo nascondermi," the film about Antonio Ligabue starring Elio Germano as the painter

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