Elio Germano will play the role of Antonio Ligabue in a film about the artist

Shooting will start in May on "Volevo nascondermi," a biographical film centered on the figure of Antonio Ligabue (Zurich, 1899 - Gualtieri, 1965), a painter with a suffered existence who has already been the subject of films, the most famous of which is probably the 1977 film starring the great Flavio Bucci as the artist.

The film will be directed by Giorgio Dritti, who wrote the screenplay together with Tania Pedroni and Fredo Valla, and will star Elio Germano, who will give Ligabue’s face. Produced by Palomar, which produced another biopic starring Germano namely “The Fabulous Young Man,” the film will be shot mainly in the province of Reggio Emilia, where the artist had moved at a young age. Antonio Ligabue was in fact born in Switzerland, in Zurich (when he arrived in Gualtieri he could not even speak Italian), to a mother originally from Belluno and an unknown father: the surname was that of his stepfather, Bonfiglio Laccabue, changed to “Ligabue” probably because of young Antonio’s hatred for his adoptive father.

Elio Germano will play the role of Antonio Ligabue in a film about the artist

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