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Paolo Taviani

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Paolo Taviani
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.
BornNovember 8, 1931
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BornNovember 8, 1931
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  • Awards
    • 59 wins & 37 nominations

Photos7

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)
Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani in Caesar Must Die (2012)
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 (1982)
The Night of the Shooting Stars
7.3
  • Director
  • 1982
Kaos (1984)
Kaos
7.8
  • Director
  • 1984
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Caesar Must Die
7.3
  • Director
  • 2012
Padre Padrone (1977)
Padre Padrone
7.3
  • Director
  • 1977

Credits

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Director

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

Writer

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

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • L'Italia non è un paese povero (1960)
    L'Italia non è un paese povero
    • assistant director
    • 1960
  • Yvonne De Carlo, Jorge Mistral, and Massimo Serato in La spada e la croce (1958)
    La spada e la croce
    • assistant director
    • 1958
  • L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958)
    L'uomo dai calzoni corti
    • assistant director
    • 1958

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Paolo
  • Born
    • November 8, 1931
    • San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy
  • Relatives
      Vittorio Taviani(Sibling)
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    • 1 Interview

Did you know

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    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]

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