Vittorio Taviani, Award-Winning Italian Director, Dies at 88

Italian director Vittorio Taviani, of the multiple award-winning Taviani brothers, has died at 88.His daughter Giovanna told media he died in Rome after a long illness.Vittorio was the older of the prolific Taviani brothers who emerged in the 1970’s as the revered filmmaking duo whose works blended neo-realism with more modern storytelling in works such as “Padre Padrone,” which won the 1977 Cannes Palme d’Or, World War II drama “The Night of the Shooting Stars” (1982) and “Kaos” (1984) which is based on Pirandello.Born in the Tuscan town of San Miniato, Vittorio and Paolo Taviani soon moved to nearby Pisa where as high-school students they became aspiring directors.

“We walked into a movie theater called Cinema Italia, which no longer exists, and there was a film playing called ‘Paisà’ that we had never heard of,” they told Variety in unison in a 2016 interview.

That experience “really blew our minds,” they said.

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