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Paolo Taviani, Award-Winning Italian Director, Dies at 92
Paolo Taviani, who with his late brother Vittorio formed revered directorial duo the Taviani Brothers, has died in Rome at 92.
Italian director Paolo Taviani, who with his late brother Vittorio formed the revered filmmaking duo that in 1977 won the Cannes Palme d’Or for “ Padre Padrone,” has died at 92. The Taviani brothers “directed unforgettable, profound, committed films that entered into the collective imagination and the history of cinema,” Gualtieri added. Born in the Tuscan town of San Miniato, Vittorio and Paolo Taviani soon moved to nearby Pisa where as high=school students they became aspiring directors.
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