Paolo and Vittorio Taviani  

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Paolo Taviani (1931 – 2024) and Vittorio Taviani (1929 – 2018) were Italian film directors and screenwriters known for films such as Padre Padrone (1977).

Filmography

As film directors

• San Miniato, luglio '44 (1954)
• L'Italia non è un paese povero (together with Joris Ivens, 1960)
• A Man for Burning (together with Valentino Orsini, 1962)
• Outlaws of Love (together with Valentino Orsini, 1963)
• The Subversives (1967)
• Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
• St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
• Allonsanfàn (1974)
• Padre Padrone (1977)
• The Meadow (1979)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
• Kaos (1984)
• Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
• The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990)
• Fiorile (1993)
• The Elective Affinities (1996)
• You Laugh (1998)
• Resurrection (TV film, 2001)
• La primavera del 2002 - L'Italia protesta, l'Italia si ferma (2002), collectively made with 46 other directors
• Luisa Sanfelice (TV miniseries, 2004)
• The Lark Farm (2007)
• Caesar Must Die (2012)
• Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
• Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)
• Leonora addio (2022, first and last film directed only by Paolo Taviani)

As screenwriters

• San Miniato, luglio '44 (with Valentino Orsini and Cesare Zavattini, 1954)
• A Man for Burning (with Valentino Orsini, 1962)
• Outlaws of Love (with Lucio Battistrada, Giuliani G. De Negri, Renato Niccolai and Valentino Orsini, 1963)
• The Subversives (1967)
• Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
• St. Michael Had a Rooster (based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, 1972)
• Allonsanfàn (1973)
• Padre padrone (based on a book by Gavino Ledda, 1977)
• The Meadow (with Gianni Sbarra, 1979)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (with Giuliani G. De Negri and Tonino Guerra, 1982)
• Kaos (based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello, 1984)
• Good Morning, Babylon (with Tonino Guerra, 1987)
• The Sun Also Shines at Night (with Tonino Guerra, based on Father Sergius by Tolstoy, 1990)
• Fiorile (with Sandro Petraglia, 1993)
• The Elective Affinities (based on Elective Affinities by Goethe, 1996)
• You Laugh (based on short stories by Pirandello, 1998)
• Resurrection (based on Resurrection by Tolstoy, 2001)
• Luisa Sanfelice (based on La Sanfelice by Alexandre Dumas, père, 2004)
• Rainbow: A Private Affair (based on A Private Matter by Beppe Fenoglio, 2017)