After decades on stage, Eleonora Duse looks back on a legendary career that seems to have run its course. But in the savage days between World War I and the rise of Fascism, the Divine Duse heeds a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: the stage. Armed only with her art, she defies time and disenchantment, transforming every word and every gesture into a revolutionary act. But the price of holding up beauty against the brutality of power and history is high. Relationships seem to dissolve, and her health worsens. Yet Eleonora will face her last journey convinced that one can give up life itself, but never one’s true nature.
Pietro Marcello was born in Caserta on July 2, 1976. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts where he studied painting. As an autodidact, he taught in prisons in the field of participatory video and from 1998 to 2003 he worked as an organizer and programmer of the Cinedamm film festival at the Damm di Montesanto art space in Naples, of which he was one of the founders. In those years he made the radio-documentary "Il tempo dei magliari" and his first short films, "Carta" and "Scampia". In 2004 he completed the documentary "Il Cantiere" with which he won the eleventh edition of the "Libero Bizzarri". The following year he created "La Baracca".
