PAOLO E VITTORIO TAVIANI

Paolo (San Miniato, 8 November 1931) and Vittorio Taviani (San Miniato, 20 September 1929) are two Italian directors and screenwriters.
Film lovers since their youth, were among the animators of the Cineclub of Pisa. They have a younger brother named Franco Brogi Taviani, aka Brogi. Moving to Rome in the mid-fifties, they began working in the cinema and directed some documentaries including San Miniato July '44, with a contribution to the screenplay by Cesare Zavattini. In 1960, together with Joris Ivens, they directed the documentary Italy is not a poor country, while with Valentino Orsini they signed the films Un uomo da bruciare (1962) and Il fuorilegge del matrimonio (1963). Their first independent film was I subversivi (1967), with which they anticipated the events of '68. With Gian Maria Volonté they achieved great success with Sotto il segno del scorpione (1969) in which the echoes of Brecht, Pasolini and Godard are perceived.
The theme of the revolution is then present both in San Michele had a rooster (1972), adaptation of the story of Tolstoy The Divine and the Human, a film much appreciated by critics, and in the film on the restoration Allonsanfàn (1974) where the melodrama is re-read viscounted through the lens of a different historical consciousness. Protagonist Mastroianni, surrounded by Laura Betti and Lea Massari. The following master father (1977, Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival), based on the novel by Gavino Ledda, tells the struggle of a Sardinian shepherd against the fierce rules of his patriarchal universe.