Abstract
The article reads through Pirandello’s most famous metatheatrical work, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) and compares is to Magnificent Presence (2013) by an Italian Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek. It’s a ghost centered dramedy with Pietro Pontechievello, a gay man who rents a large house in the historic center of Rome which is infested with strange and mysterious presences: the ghosts of members of a theater company dating back to the times of fascism who do not know that are dead. The ghosts believe, in a very Pirandellian way, they are on leave to participate in a new show, and Pietro does not know how to drive the intruders from the building.

Keywords:
Luigi Pirandello, Ferzan Ozpetek, LGBTQ+, film analysis, Italian Modernism.