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Updated Thursday, February 29, 2024-21:22

The filmmaker

Paolo Taviani,

author with his brother

Vittorio

of some of the most outstanding films of Italian cinematography of the second half of the 20th century, died today in Rome at the

age of 92,

after a brief illness.

Taviani died this afternoon at the Villa Pia clinic, surrounded by his wife, the costume designer

Lina Nerli Taviani,

and his children

Ermanno and Valentina

and his funeral, which will be secular, will be held next Monday at the City Hall of the Italian capital. local media reported.

Paolo (San Miniato, Tuscany, 1931) was the youngest of the two Taviani brothers.

The eldest, Vittorio, died in April 2018 at the age of 88,

and the two collaborated for more than fifty years to create some of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema.

The Taviani brothers were a case of perfect artistic synchronicity and

always worked together.

Captivated by the Seventh Art since their youth, they launched themselves into direction, drawing a dividing line with the Neorealism of

Roberto Rosselini.

His was always a political cinema forged in the sixties, anticipating some of the driving principles of May '68 and the teachings of references such as

Pier Paolo Pasolini.

They made it clear right away in "Un uomo da bruciare" ("A man must be burned", 1962), directed with

Valentino Orsini.

The revolution would appear again in "San Michele aveva un gallo" ("I am not alone", 1972), an adaptation of "Between the divine and the human" by Leon Tolstoi, but its international consecration would occur with "

Padre padrone" ("Padre padrone" (" Father Patron", 1977), the workers' drama with which he won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

A festival in which they would triumph again, taking the Grand Jury Prize with their most acclaimed film,

"La notte di San Lorenzo" ("The Night of San Lorenzo", 1982),

an ode to the anti-fascist resistance in Tuscany. the Second World War.

Other of his fundamental titles, in which the

echoes of the working classes also resonate,

are "Sotto il segno dello scorpione" (1969), "Kaos" (1984) or the documentary "Cesare deve muertere" ("Caesar must die ", 2012), the Shakespearean drama performed by prisoners with which they won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale.

The last collaboration of the Taviani brothers was in 2017 in "Una questione privata", although the person in charge of filming it was Paolo, since Vittorio was already very ill.

Since then, the little brother of the duo has continued working,

considering himself a "half director" due to the absence of his brother,

as he often stated in his interviews, although, despite everything, Paolo premiered "Leonora Addio" in 2022. , adaptation of the novel of the same name by Luigi Pirandello and his first "solo" work.

Among the recognitions given to the Taviani brothers, the decorations as Grand Officers and Commanders of the Order of Merit, awarded by the Head of State, stand out, in addition to the honorary Golden Lion of Venice in 1986.