Name
Franco Piavoli
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1933-06-21 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Pozzolengo - Lombardy - Italy
Biography
Franco Piavoli (born 21 June 1933) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Piavoli studied law at the University of Pavia in Lombardy.Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he made a number of short films: Uccellanda (1953), Ambulatorio (1954), Incidente (1955), La stagioni (1960), Domenica sera (1962), Emigranti (1963), and Evasi (1964).
Nearly 20 years later, Piavoli released his first feature film The Blue Planet in 1982, which competed at the 39th Venice International Film Festival. Piavoli later directed Nostos: The Return in 1989, a film inspired by Ulysses' return to Ithica in the Odyssey, and contains only sparse dialogue that imitates "sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages".
In 2009, Piavoli worked with Ermanno Olmi on Olmi's documentary about food production Terra Madre.
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Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film...
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At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail b...
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Through interviews with prostitutes, transsexuals, marginalized people, and the disabled, ...
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Visual ode to contemplative journey through the stages of life and the essence of human ex...
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A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday l...
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Set on an August afternoon in the Lombardy countryside, a family lingers around the table ...
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The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surp...
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A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where ...
- 2020 me/portray/you (Franco Piavoli) as Self
- 2023 Paradise Lost in Two Reelers as self
- 2013 Habitat [Piavoli] as Himself
- 1991 Sweet War, Farewell as The Doctor
- 2008 I giorni dell'amore nascente as Himself
