Activities : Director, Scriptwriter

Mas des alouettes (Le)(2006), from Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Elective Affinities(1996), from Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Wild Flower(1992), from Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani
Soleil même la nuit (Le)(1990), from Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Good Morning Babylonia(1986), from Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani
KAOS(1985), from Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
NUIT DE SAN LORENZO (LA)(1982), from Paolo Taviani
PADRE PADRONE(1976), from Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani

Complete filmography

The films of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, working as a directing tandem for more than forty years now, are unique in the history of the cinema. The brothers have directed seven documentaries including "San Miniato July 1944," an investigation of a Nazi massacre in their home village (banned by the censors in 1955), and fourteen features. "Un uomo da bruciare" ("A Man for Burning," 1961-62) was both their first fiction work and their first feature. As sensitive observers of the changes that overturn and transform society, they have built up a body of work in which History, psychological analysis and lyricism blend together: "I fuorilegge del matrimonio" (1963) dealt with divorce, "Sotto il segno dello scorpione" (1969) tackled the events of 1968, and "Allonsanfan" (1974), their first international hit, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Lea Massari, was a superb evocation of post-Napoleonic Italy and the failure of a revolutionary movement. "Padre padrone" won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1977, "La notte di San Lorenzo" ("The Night of the Shooting Stars," 1981), in which war is seen through the innocent eyes of child, picked up the Special Jury Grand Prize at Cannes in 1982, and "Good Morning Babilonia" ("Good Morning Babylon," 1987) paints a portrait of Hollywood in the days of D.W. Griffith. In their work, life is a harsh and colorful spectacle bearing the imprint of the absurd, all marks of the Taviani brothers' very particular style. "Elective Affinities" is their fourteenth feature film.