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Director Paolo Taviani dies at 92
The Italian director Paolo Taviani achieved his breakthrough with “Padre Padrone”. photo
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Taviani was one of the most important Italian directors. Now he’s dead.
The Italian director Paolo Taviani (“My Father, My Lord”, “Caesar Must Die”) has died at the age of 92. This was confirmed by the prefecture of his home region of Tuscany in the evening.
Taviani, along with his older brother Vittorio, who died in 2018, was one of the most important Italian filmmakers of the past decades. The two of them won several dozen awards for their films, which were always made together Cannes and Berlin.
The two made their first feature film together in 1967: “I sovversivi” (“The Subversives”) dealt with the Italian left. The brothers had their international breakthrough in 1977 with “Padre Padrone” (“My Father, My Lord”). The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. In 2012, the Tavianis received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for the film “Caesar Must Die.”