Paolo Taviani, who with his brother Vittorio made some of Italy’s most acclaimed films of the last half century — including “Padre Padrone,” which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977 — died on Feb. 29 in Rome.
His son, Ermanno Taviani, said the cause of his death, in a hospital, was pulmonary edema.
The Taviani brothers emerged in the late 1950s as part of a generation of Italian filmmakers — including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gillo Pontecorvo — who were inspired by the country’s Neorealist movement but determined to push beyond it.
(Vittorio Taviani died in 2018.)
“Padre Padrone,” for example, tells the story of a boy’s struggle between the demands of his overbearing father, who wants him to be a farmer, and his own dreams of becoming a linguist.
Persons:
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio, Padre Padrone, —, Ermanno Taviani, Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gillo Pontecorvo —, Vittorio Taviani
Organizations:
Cannes Film
Locations:
Rome