A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Carpi, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Born:
January 12, 1933
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marco Bellocchio. Cavani became internationally known after the success of her 1974 feature film Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter). Her films have historical concerns. In addition to feature films and documentaries, she has also directed opera. While attending film school, Cavani won a competition at RAI, Italy's national television network, and took a job there as a director of historical documentaries in 1961. Her professional career thus began making documentaries for RAI between 1961 and 1965, which included Storia del III Reich, (History of the Third Reich) (1962–1963), which chronicles the rise of the Nazi regime. It was the first historical investigation of German totalitarianism to appear on television. Other documentaries are: L'età di Stalin ("The Stalin Years"), an investigation into the Soviet leader's years; La donna nella Resistenza (1965); Philippe Pétain, processo a Vichy, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice film festival in 1965 in the documentary section. In this period she also made Il giorno della pace, a four-hour documentary on immigration south-to-north within Italy. Cavani made her first full-length feature film in 1966 with Francis of Assisi (Francesco d'Assisi). Made for television and aired in two parts, it was deeply influenced by the style of Rossellini and the atmosphere typical of the films of Pasolini. Made in a period of political unrest, it was to become a kind of manifesto of dissenting Catholicism. The film was a great success, but also triggered many negative reactions. It was called " heretical, blasphemous and offensive for the faith of the Italian people". It was the first of many polemical reaction to Cavani's work. Cavani was not well known beyond Italy until she made the 1974 film The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte), which remains the film for which she is best remembered. The plot, set in Vienna in 1957, follows an SS camp guard and a former concentration camp survivor engaging in a sadomasochistic relationship after meeting again by a chance encounter. A deeply controversial film, it starred Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling. Cavani currently lives in Rome. Carpi, her hometown, has established the Associazione Fondo Liliana Cavani, where her films are preserved and made available for consultation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liliana Cavani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Co-Writer:
2005 De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
Director:
1961 Assalto al consumatore
1961 Gente di teatro
1961 Incontro di notte
1961 L'uomo della burocrazia
1961 La vita militare
1962 La battaglia
1962 La storia del Terzo Reich
1964 Età di Stalin
1964 La casa in Italia
1965 Gesù mio fratello
1965 Il giorno della pace
1965 Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy
1965 Women of the Resistance
1966 Francis of Assisi
1968 Galileo
1970 The Year of the Cannibals
1971 The Guest
1974 Milarepa
1974 The Night Porter
1977 Beyond Good and Evil
1981 The Skin
1982 Beyond the Door
1985 The Berlin Affair
1989 Francesco
1993 Where Are You? I’m Here
1996 Cavalleria rusticana
1998 Manon Lescaut
2001 Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala
2002 Ripley's Game
2005 De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
2006 Macbeth
2007 Verdi: La Traviata
2008 Einstein
2012 Clarisse
2014 Francesco
2023 The Order of Time
Producer:
1961 Assalto al consumatore
1961 Gente di teatro
1961 Incontro di notte
1961 L'uomo della burocrazia
1961 La vita militare
1962 La battaglia
1962 La storia del Terzo Reich
1964 Età di Stalin
1964 La casa in Italia
1965 Gesù mio fratello
1965 Il giorno della pace
1965 Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy
1965 Women of the Resistance
1966 Francis of Assisi
1968 Galileo
1970 The Year of the Cannibals
1971 The Guest
1974 Milarepa
1974 The Night Porter
1977 Beyond Good and Evil
1981 The Skin
1982 Beyond the Door
1985 The Berlin Affair
1989 Francesco
1993 Where Are You? I’m Here
1996 Cavalleria rusticana
1998 Manon Lescaut
2001 Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala
2002 Ripley's Game
2005 De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
2006 Macbeth
2007 Verdi: La Traviata
2008 Einstein
2012 Clarisse
2014 Francesco
2023 The Order of Time
Screenplay:
1961 Assalto al consumatore
1961 Gente di teatro
1961 Incontro di notte
1961 L'uomo della burocrazia
1961 La vita militare
1962 La battaglia
1962 La storia del Terzo Reich
1964 Età di Stalin
1964 La casa in Italia
1965 Gesù mio fratello
1965 Il giorno della pace
1965 Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy
1965 Women of the Resistance
1966 Francis of Assisi
1968 Galileo
1970 The Year of the Cannibals
1971 The Guest
1974 Milarepa
1974 The Night Porter
1977 Beyond Good and Evil
1981 The Skin
1982 Beyond the Door
1985 The Berlin Affair
1989 Francesco
1993 Where Are You? I’m Here
1996 Cavalleria rusticana
1998 Manon Lescaut
2001 Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala
2002 Ripley's Game
2005 De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
2006 Macbeth
2007 Verdi: La Traviata
2008 Einstein
2012 Clarisse
2014 Francesco
2023 The Order of Time
Story:
1961 Assalto al consumatore
1961 Gente di teatro
1961 Incontro di notte
1961 L'uomo della burocrazia
1961 La vita militare
1962 La battaglia
1962 La storia del Terzo Reich
1964 Età di Stalin
1964 La casa in Italia
1965 Gesù mio fratello
1965 Il giorno della pace
1965 Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy
1965 Women of the Resistance
1966 Francis of Assisi
1968 Galileo
1970 The Year of the Cannibals
1971 The Guest
1974 Milarepa
1974 The Night Porter
1977 Beyond Good and Evil
1981 The Skin
1982 Beyond the Door
1985 The Berlin Affair
1989 Francesco
1993 Where Are You? I’m Here
1996 Cavalleria rusticana
1998 Manon Lescaut
2001 Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala
2002 Ripley's Game
2005 De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
2006 Macbeth
2007 Verdi: La Traviata
2008 Einstein
2012 Clarisse
2014 Francesco
2023 The Order of Time
Writer:
1961 Assalto al consumatore
1961 Gente di teatro
1961 Incontro di notte
1961 L'uomo della burocrazia
1961 La vita militare
1962 La battaglia
1962 La storia del Terzo Reich
1964 Età di Stalin
1964 La casa in Italia
1965 Gesù mio fratello
1965 Il giorno della pace
1965 Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy
1965 Women of the Resistance
1966 Francis of Assisi
1968 Galileo
1969 Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo
1970 The Year of the Cannibals
1971 The Guest
1974 Milarepa
1974 The Night Porter
1977 Beyond Good and Evil
1981 The Skin
1982 Beyond the Door
1985 The Berlin Affair
1989 Francesco
1993 Where Are You? I’m Here
1996 Cavalleria rusticana
1998 Manon Lescaut
2001 Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala
2002 Ripley's Game
2005 De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
2006 Macbeth
2007 Verdi: La Traviata
2008 Einstein
2012 Clarisse
2014 Francesco
2023 The Order of Time
Director:
2012 Never for Love
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