Farewell to Paolo Taviani, director of "Master Father"
The great filmmaker was 92 years old. With his brother Vittorio he directed the famous film set in Sardinia
Farewell to director Paolo Taviani, who died in Rome at the age of 92, after a short illness.
His wife Lina Nerli and his children Ermanno and Valentina were with him until the end.
The secular funeral ceremony is scheduled for Monday 4 March at the Protomoteca del Campidoglio from 10am to 1pm. Paolo, together with his brother Vittorio, who died in 2018, formed an indissoluble couple of Italian cinema. Tuscan brothers, born in San Miniato, who faced the seventh art with rigor and civil commitment.
«Vittorio and I grew up together and always working», Paolo said at the presentation of "Leonora addio", his latest film.
Among the films made with his brother also "Padrelord", from 1977, freely based on the work of the same name by Gavino Ledda. An autobiographical story set in Sardinia. The path of a shepherd who, in a family environment dominated by an authoritarian father, finds the path towards education and a university degree.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the thirtieth Cannes Film Festival. A long journey, in the name of coherence, characterized by films such as "The subversives", "San Michele had a rooster", "Allonsanfan", "The lawn", "Fiorile", "Tu ridi".
