Franco Piavoli

Franco Piavoli (born 21 June 1933) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer.[1][2][3]

Franco Piavoli
Born (1933-06-21) June 21, 1933
Pozzolengo, Lombardy, Italy
NationalityItalian
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, producer
Spouse(s)Neria Poli

Biography

Piavoli studied law at the University of Pavia in Lombardy.[4] 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 Ithaca in the Odyssey, and contains only sparse dialogue that imitates "sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages".[4][5]

In 2009, Piavoli worked with Ermanno Olmi on Olmi's documentary about food production Terra Madre.[6]

Filmography
Feature films
  • The Blue Planet (1982)
  • Nostos: The Return (1989)
  • Voices Through Time (1996)
  • At the First Breath of Wind (2002)

References
  1. Roberto Chiti; Enrico Lancia; Roberto Poppi (2002). Dizionario del cinema italiano: i film (in Italian). Gremese Editore. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-88-8440-137-3.
  2. Giovanni Invitto (2006). Fenomenologia del mito: la narrazione tra cinema, filosofia, psicoanalisi (in Italian). Manni Editori. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-88-8176-854-7.
  3. Gino Moliterno (29 September 2008). Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. pp. 391–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6254-8.
  4. Guardiola, Rosario Rovira (2017-12-14). Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts: Sailing in Troubled Waters. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 97. ISBN 9781474298612.
  5. From the opening credits of Nostos: The Return.
  6. "L' orto di flora — Cinéma du Réel". www.cinemadureel.org. Retrieved 2018-07-07.


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