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Vittorio Taviani

Director

Born - 20 September 1929, San Miniato, Italy
Died - 15 April 2018

Pugnacious, bespectacled Italian director who, with his brother Paolo, who survives him, made frequently controversial arthouse films over six decades. Their work included A Burning Man (1962), I Sovversivi (967), Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969), Allonsanfan (1974), Padre Padrone (1977), Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Kaos (1984), Good Morning Babylon (1987), Night Sun (1990), Florile (1993), Elective Affinities (1996), You Laugh (1998), The Lark Farm (2007), Caesar Must Die (2012) and Wondrous Boccaccio (2015), Vittorio's last. He died 'after a long illness'.