Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

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Taviani brothers
Lina Nerli
Born
Vittorio Taviani

(1929-09-20)20 September 1929
San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy
Died15 April 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 88)
Rome, Italy
Occupations
  • Film director
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
  • film editor
Years active1962–2018

Paolo Taviani (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːolo taˈvjaːni]; 8 November 1931 – 29 February 2024) and Vittorio Taviani (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo taˈvjaːni]; 20 September 1929 – 15 April 2018), collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers, were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on numerous film productions.

At the

La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982). In 2012 they won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with Caesar Must Die
.

Career

Both born in

I fuorilegge del matrimonio
(Outlaws of Marriage) (1963).

Their first anonymous film was

Sotto il segno dello scorpione (Under the Sign of Scorpio, (1969) where one can see the echoes of Brecht, Pasolini, and Godard
.

In 1971, they co-signed the media campaign against Milan's police commissioner

L'espresso
.

The revolutionary theme is present both in

Allonsanfan (1974), in which Marcello Mastroianni
has a role as an ex-revolutionary who has served a long term in prison and now views his idealistic youth in a much more realistic light, and nevertheless gets entangled in a new attempt in which he no longer believes.

Their next film

La notte di San Lorenzo
(The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982) narrates, in a fairy-tale tone, a marginal event in the days before the end of World War II, in Tuscany, as seen through the eyes of some village people. The film was awarded the Special Jury Award in Cannes.

Il sole anche di notte (1990) the Taviani brothers transposed in 18th century Naples the story from Tolstoy's Father Sergius
.

Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Storaro

From then onwards, the Tavianis' inspiration proved faltering. Successes like

Good morning Babilonia, (1987), on the pioneers of cinema history, alternate with lesser films like Fiorile (1993) and Tu ridi (1996), inspired by the characters and short stories of Pirandello
.

In the 2000s, the brothers turned successfully to directing television films and miniseries, such as Leo Tolstoy's

Berlin Film Festival
in the section 'Berlinale Special'.

Their film

Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.[2]

On 15 April 2018, Vittorio Taviani died in Rome after a long illness at the age of 88.[3][4][5]

Paolo Taviani died of a pulmonary edema in Rome, on 29 February 2024, at the age of 92.[6][7]

Filmography

As film directors

As screenwriters

  • San Miniato, luglio '44 (with Valentino Orsini and Cesare Zavattini, 1954)
  • A Man for Burning (with Valentino Orsini, 1962)
  • Outlaws of Love (with Lucio Battistrada, Giuliani G. De Negri, Renato Niccolai and Valentino Orsini, 1963)
  • The Subversives (1967)
  • Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
  • St. Michael Had a Rooster (based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, 1972)
  • Allonsanfàn (1973)
  • Padre padrone (based on a book by Gavino Ledda, 1977)
  • The Meadow (with Gianni Sbarra, 1979)
  • The Night of the Shooting Stars (with Giuliani G. De Negri and Tonino Guerra, 1982)
  • Kaos (based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello, 1984)
  • Good Morning, Babylon (with Tonino Guerra, 1987)
  • The Sun Also Shines at Night (with Tonino Guerra, based on Father Sergius by Tolstoy, 1990)
  • Fiorile (with Sandro Petraglia, 1993)
  • The Elective Affinities (based on Elective Affinities by Goethe, 1996)
  • You Laugh (based on short stories by Pirandello, 1998)
  • Resurrection (based on Resurrection by Tolstoy, 2001)
  • Luisa Sanfelice (based on
    Alexandre Dumas, père
    , 2004)
  • Rainbow: A Private Affair (based on
    A Private Matter by Beppe Fenoglio
    , 2017)

Awards

Paolo Taviani at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival, 2022

References

  1. ^ "Jail docu-drama Caesar Must Die wins Berlin award". BBC News Online. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  2. ^ "L'Italia candida agli Oscar il film dei fratelli Taviani". Gazzetta di Parma (in Italian). 26 September 2012. Archived from the original on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Italian film-maker Vittorio Taviani dies". BBC News Online. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ^ The Associated Press (15 April 2018). "Vittorio Taviani, of Italian Brother Directing Team, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  5. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Morto Paolo Taviani, maestro di cinema con il fratello Vittorio". La Repubblica. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  7. ^ Rainews, Redazione di (29 February 2024). "È morto il regista Paolo Taviani, maestro del cinema italiano con il fratello Vittorio". RaiNews (in Italian). Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  8. ^ "24th Moscow International Film Festival (2002)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.

External links

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