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Paolo Taviani's wife Lina Nerli Taviani has been costume designer of many of their films.

At the Cannes Film Festival the Taviani brothers won Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI prize for Padre padrone in 1977 and Grand Prix du Jury for La notte di San Lorenzo in 1982. The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the worlds oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. ... Palme dOr The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ... FIPRESCI (short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), in English known as International Federation of Film Critics, comprised of the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of... Padre Padrone is a 1977 Italian film. ... The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. ...

Filmography

as film directors

1950s-1960s

• San Miniato, luglio '44 (1954)
• L'Italia non è un paese povero (1960, together with Joris Ivens)
• Un uomo da bruciare (1962, together with Valentino Orsini)
• I fuorilegge del matrimonio (1963, together with Valentino Orsini)
• I sovversivi (1967)
• Sotto il segno dello scorpione (1969)

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1970s-1980s

• San Michele aveva un gallo (1972)
• Allonsanfàn (1973)
• Padre padrone (1977)
• Il prato (1979)
• La notte di San Lorenzo (1982)
• Kaos (1984)
• Good Morning, Babylon (1987)

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since 1990s

• Il sole anche di notte (1990)
• Fiorile (1993)
• Le affinità elettive (1996)
• Tu ridi (1998)
• Un altro mondo è possibile (2001)
• Resurrezione (2001, TV film)
• Luisa Sanfelice (2004, TV miniseries)
• La masseria delle allodole (2007)

as screenwriters

1950s-1960s

• San Miniato, luglio '44 (1954, with Valentino Orsini and Cesare Zavattini)
• Un uomo da bruciare (1962, with Valentino Orsini)
• I fuorilegge del matrimonio (1963, with Lucio Battistrada, Giuliani G. De Negri, Renato Niccolai and Valentino Orsini)
• I sovversivi (1967)
• Sotto il segno dello scorpione (1969)

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1970s-1980s

• San Michele aveva un gallo (1972, based on a story by Leo Tolstoy)
• Allonsanfàn (1973)
• Padre padrone (1977, based on a book by Gavino Ledda)
• Il prato (1979, with Gianni Sbarra)
• La notte di San Lorenzo (1982, with Giuliani G. De Negri and Tonino Guerra)
• Kaos (1984, based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello)
• Good Morning, Babylon (1987, with Tonino Guerra)

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since 1990s

• Il sole anche di notte (1990, with Tonino Guerra)
• Fiorile (1993, with Sandro Petraglia)
• Le affinità elettive (1996, based on a novella by Johann Wolfgang Goethe)
• Tu ridi (1998, based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello)
• Resurrezione (2001, based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy)
• Luisa Sanfelice (2004, based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père)

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External links

• Paolo Taviani, IMDB entry
• Vittorio Taviani, IMDB entry

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