Paolo Taviani

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani · With Giovanni Arcuri, Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arrive to liberate them.

Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani · With Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani · With Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli

Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during a conversation that Fulvia was secretly in love with his best friend Giorgio, a partisan like him. Milton decides to go find Giorgio in the Langhe region of Italy with all its misty hills...But Giorgio has just been arrested by the Fascists.

Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani · With Luca Marinelli, Valentina Bellè, Francesca Agostini