Vittorio Taviani

Paolo Taviani born 8 November 1931 and Vittorio Taviani 20 September 1929 15 April 2018 collectively referred to as the Taviani brothers were Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated on film productions At the Cannes Film Festival the Taviani brothers won the Palme dOr and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre Padrone in 1977 and the Grand Prix du Jury for 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 Vittorio Taviani died on 15 April 2018 at the age of 88 Both born in San Miniato Tuscany Italy the Taviani brothers began their careers as journalists In 1960 they came to the world of cinema directing with Joris Ivens the documentary LItalia non è un paese povero Italy is not a poor country They went on to direct two films with Valentino Orsini Un uomo da bruciare A Man to Burn 1962 and I fuorilegge del matrimonio Outlaws of Marriage 1963 Their first autonomous film was I sovversivi The Subversives 1967 with which they anticipated the events of 1968 With actor Gian Maria Volonté they gained attention with 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 cosigned the media campaign against Milans police commissioner Luigi Calabresi published in the magazine Lespresso The revolutionary theme is present both in San Michele aveva un gallo 1971 an adaptation of Tolstoys novel The Divine and the Human a film greatly appreciated by critics and in the film Allonsanfan 1974 in which Marcello Mastroianni has a role as an exrevolutionary 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 Padre Padrone 1977 Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival taken from a novel by Gavino Ledda speaks of the struggle of a Sardinian shepherd against the cruel rules of his patriarchal society In Il prato 1979 there are nonrealistic echoes while La notte di San Lorenzo The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 narrates in a fairytale 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 Kaos 1984another literary adaptationis a poignantly beautiful and poetical film in episodes taken from Luigi Pirandellos Short Stories for a year In Il sole anche di notte 1990 the Taviani brothers transposed in 18th century Naples the story from Tolstoys Father Sergius From then onwards the Tavianis inspiration proved faltering Successes like Le affinità elettive 1996 from Goethe and an attempt to woo the international audiences 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 Source Article Paolo and Vittorio Taviani from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30