Here's what Elio Germano looks like as Antonio Ligabue. The film "I Wanted to Hide" comes out Feb. 27.

The film Volevo nascondermi (I Wanted to Hide), the feature film on the life of painter Antonio Ligabue (Zurich, 1899 - Gualtieri, 1965), in which Elio Germano, one of Italy’s most acclaimed young actors, plays the Emilian artist, will be released in theaters on February 27.A few hours ago, the specialized website MYmovies.it published a preview of the film’s official poster, in which Elio Germano as Ligabue and a self-portrait of the painter appear side by side. The resemblance is striking: a frame of the film had already been released in the summer, but the actor’s makeup was not as appreciated as in the official poster.

For Elio Germano this is not the first portrayal of an important personality of Italian culture: in 2014 he had played the role of Giacomo Leopardi in the film The Fabulous Young Man, which earned him the 2015 David di Donatello for best leading actor. Germano has won two other David c as best leading actor (in 2007 for Mio fratello è an only child and in 2011 for La nostra vita), and to the list of awards he has won are added the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 (again for La nostra vita), the 2010 Silver Ribbon as best leading actor (for La nostra vita), the 2007 Golden Globe as best revelation in 2007 for N (Io e Napoleone) and Mio fratello e figlio unico, and the Golden Globe as best actor in 2012 (for Magnifica presenza) and 2016 (for Alaska).

In Volevo nascondermi (I Wanted to Hide), which features Giorgio Diritti as director, Elio Germano will be joined by Pietro Traldi (who plays Renato Marino Mazzacurati), Orietta Notari (as Mazzacurati’s mother), Andrea Gherpelli (the role of the painter Andrea Mozzali for him), Oliver Johann Ewy (Ligabue as a teenager), Leonardo Carrozzo (Ligabue as a child), and Gianni Fantoni (an industrialist from Emilia). The film is produced by Palomar in collaboration with Rai Cinema and with the support of MiBACT and Regione Emilia Romagna, in association with Coop Alleanza 3.0, Demetra Formazione s.r.l. and Finregg s.p.a., and is distributed by 01 Distribution.

The following is the synopsis of Volevo nascondermi (I Wanted to Hide): 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 on the river without ever 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, becomes the imaginative painter who paints his fantasy world of tigers, gorillas and jaguars, standing on the bank of the Po. Ligabue’s is a “fable” in which the richness of diversity emerges, and his works prove over time to be a gift to the entire community.

Pictured is the poster for the film.

Here's what Elio Germano looks like as Antonio Ligabue. The film "I Wanted to Hide" comes out Feb. 27.

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