Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born January 12, 1933 in Carpi , Province of Modena ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Life
After attending high school, she studied classical literature and linguistics at the University of Bologna . At that time she was already active in the local film club. After completing her doctorate in linguistics and classical philology, she went to Rome in 1960 and took a directing course at the local film academy.
Cavani made two short films here , Il contro notturno about the friendship between a white man and a Senegalese, and L'evento about a group of tourists who kill an Italian for fun. In 1961 she won one of the three prizes in a RAI competition from among 10,000 candidates.
Between 1962 and 1965 she worked for the RAI and made several documentaries . Your contribution Philippe Petain - Processo a Vichy received an award for best television production at the Venice International Film Festival in 1965 .
In 1966 she switched to the cinema and made her debut with her biography Francesco d'Assisi about Francis of Assisi . With this film, according to Cavani a "film about the first hippie in history", she caused quite a stir, which continued after her church-critical Galileo biography Galileo . Her film Der Nachtportier, about the sexual relationship between a former concentration camp inmate and her SS tormentor , achieved worldwide impact in 1974 . The scandalous film was officially declared by legal wrangling at the artwork and released without cuts. Her next work, Beyond Good and Evil , focused on the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his love life. She chose the “ Third Reich ” as the background for her film Passions , this time for a lesbian relationship. In 1989, her second biopic about Francis of Assisi was published with Franziskus . In 2014 she made her third film adaptation of Francis His name was Franziskus .
In 2009 she was appointed to the competition jury of the 66th Venice Film Festival .
Filmography (selection)
- 1961: Il contro notturno (short film)
- 1962: L'evento (short film)
- 1963: Storia del III ° Reich
- 1963: Le donne della resistenza
- 1964: L'età di Stalin
- 1965: Primo Piano: Philippe Pétain processo a Vichy
- 1965: La casa in Italia
- 1966: Francesco d'Assisi (also screenplay)
- 1969: Galileo Galilei (Galileo) (also screenplay)
- 1970: I cannibali (also screenplay)
- 1972: L'ospite (also screenplay)
- 1974: Milarepa (also screenplay)
- 1974: The night porter (Il portiere di notte) (also screenplay)
- 1977: Beyond good and evil (Al di là del bene e del male) (also screenplay)
- 1981: Die Haut (La pelle) (also screenplay)
- 1982: Beyond the Threshold (Oltre la porta) (also screenplay)
- 1985: Passions (The Berlin Affair) (also screenplay)
- 1989: Franziskus (Francesco) (also screenplay)
- 1989: La traviata
- 1993: Hear your laugh once (Dove siete? Io sono qui) (also script)
- 1996: Cavalleria rusticana
- 1998: Manon Lescaut
- 2002: Ripley's Game (Il Gioco di Ripley) (also screenplay)
- 2005: De Gasperi, l'uomo della speranza (also screenplay)
- 2008: Einstein (TV movie)
- 2012: Clarisse (short film)
- 2014: His name was Franziskus (Francesco)
literature
- Anne-Berenike Binder: "Mon ombre est restée là-bas." Literary and media forms of remembering in space and time. (Series: Romania Judaica. Studies on Jewish culture in the Romance countries ISSN 1435-098X ) Niemeyer, Tübingen 2008 ISBN 978-3-484-57008-5 About her film "Il portiere di notte" from 1973 (also about books and films by Romain Gary , Soazig Aaron , Alain Resnais' Nacht und Nebel and Charlotte Delbo )
- Alfons Maria Arns: Liliana Cavanis The night porter. In: The Aesthetics of Evil in Film. GEP u. Evangelical Academy Arnoldshain (ed.). Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 18-25 (Arnoldshainer Film Discussions, Vol. 4).
Web links
- Liliana Cavani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Life is a well of delight". Spiegel, accessed November 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Phelix / Thissen: Pioneers and Celebrities of Modern Sex Films , Munich, 1983, pp. 186–187.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cavani, Liliana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carpi , Modena Province , Emilia-Romagna , Italy |