Paolo Taviani

Director
Writer
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Paolo Taviani studied liberal arts at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Vittorio, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work together ever since, with each directing alternate scenes with the other watching but never interfering.

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Awards
- 59 wins & 37 nominations

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Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani in Caesar Must Die (2012)

Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani in The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani in La masseria delle allodole (2007)

Moritz Bleibtreu, Paolo Taviani, and Vittorio Taviani at an event for La masseria delle allodole (2007)

Ethan Coen, Paolo Taviani, and Vittorio Taviani

Known for

The Night of the Shooting Stars

7.3

Director

1982

Kaos

7.8

Director

1984

Caesar Must Die

7.3

Director

2012

Padre Padrone

7.3

Director

1977

Credits

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Director

Leonora addio
- Director
- 2022
Rainbow: A Private Affair
- Director
- 2017
Wondrous Boccaccio
- Director
- 2015
Caesar Must Die
- Director
- 2012
La masseria delle allodole
- Director
- 2007
Luisa Sanfelice
- Director
- TV Movie
- 2004
La primavera del 2002 - L'Italia protesta, l'Italia si ferma
- Director
- Video
- 2002
Resurrection
- Director
- TV Movie
- 2001
You Laugh
- Director
- 1998
Elective Affinities
- Director
- 1996
Fiorile
- Director
- 1993
Night Sun
- Director
- 1990
Good Morning Babylon
- Director
- 1987
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
- Director
- 1984
Kaos
- Director
- 1984

Writer

Leonora addio
- Writer
- 2022
Rainbow: A Private Affair
- screenplay
- 2017
Wondrous Boccaccio
- screenplay
- 2015
Caesar Must Die
- screenplay
- 2012
La masseria delle allodole
- Writer
- 2007
Luisa Sanfelice
- adaptation
- TV Movie
- 2004
Resurrection
- Writer
- TV Movie
- 2001
You Laugh
- screenplay
- 1998
Elective Affinities
- Writer
- 1996
Fiorile
- screenplay
- story
- 1993
Night Sun
- screenplay
- 1990
Good Morning Babylon
- story (screenplay)
- 1987
Kaos
- screenplay (as Paolo)
- 1984
The Night of the Shooting Stars
- screenplay (as Paolo)
- 1982
Il prato
- writer
- 1979

Second Unit or Assistant Director

Personal details

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Alternative names
- Paolo
Born
- November 8, 1931
- San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy
Relatives
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- 1 Interview

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Trivia
Brother of Vittorio Taviani and Franco Brogi Taviani.

Quotes
[when the brothers Taviani decided to become filmmakers] We walked into a movie theater called Cinema Italia, which no longer exists, and there was a film playing called Paisan (1946) that we had never heard of. (...) We had experienced the war as kids, and very deeply. But what we were seeing on screen made that reality so much clearer for us. This movie was telling us things about ourselves that we did not know. So we said to ourselves: 'If cinema has this strength, this power to reveal to ourselves our own truths, then we will make movies!' [Variety, 2016]