Liliana Cavani (born 1937 in
CarpiCarpi is a town of c. 67,000 people in the province of Modena, in the region Emilia Romagna .It is a busy centre for industrial and craft activities and for cultural and commercial exchanges.-History:...
,
ModenaModena is a city and a comune on the south side of the Po valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
) is an Italian director and screenwriter, best known for her 1974 feature film
Il portiere di notte (
The Night PorterThe Night Porter is a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.- Synopsis :...
) which launched actress
Charlotte RamplingCharlotte Rampling, OBE is an acclaimed English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.-Early life:...
to international stardom. According to the
Filmografia di Liliana Cavani, different biographers dispute the year of her birth, however: "According to the date given by Áine O’Healy (in the
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, 2007, p.427) Cavani was born in 1937, though Liehm states 1935 (
Passion and Defiance, 1984, p.198).
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Liliana Cavani (born 1937 in
CarpiCarpi is a town of c. 67,000 people in the province of Modena, in the region Emilia Romagna .It is a busy centre for industrial and craft activities and for cultural and commercial exchanges.-History:...
,
ModenaModena is a city and a comune on the south side of the Po valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
) is an Italian director and screenwriter, best known for her 1974 feature film
Il portiere di notte (
The Night PorterThe Night Porter is a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.- Synopsis :...
) which launched actress
Charlotte RamplingCharlotte Rampling, OBE is an acclaimed English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.-Early life:...
to international stardom. According to the
Filmografia di Liliana Cavani, different biographers dispute the year of her birth, however: "According to the date given by Áine O’Healy (in the
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, 2007, p.427) Cavani was born in 1937, though Liehm states 1935 (
Passion and Defiance, 1984, p.198). Other commentators list 1933 and 1936, with 1933 prevailing on Internet biographies such as IMDb".
Selected filmography
- Francesco d'Assisi (1966)
- Galileo (1968)
- I Cannibali (1970)
- L’ospite (1971)
- Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter
The Night Porter is a controversial 1974 film by Italian director Liliana Cavani, starring Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling.- Synopsis :...
) (1974)
- Milarepa
Milarepa is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Lajos Balázsovits - Leo Milarepa* Paolo Bonacelli - Prof. Bennet* Marisa Fabbri - Milarepa's mother...
(1974)
- Al di là del bene e del male (Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil is a 1977 Italian-french drama film directed by Liliana Cavani. It stars Dominique Sanda , Erland Josephson and Robert Powell...
) (1977)
- La pelle (1981)
- Oltre la porta
Beyond the Door is a 1982 Italian drama film directed by Liliana Cavani.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Enrico Sommi* Eleonora Giorgi - Nina* Tom Berenger - Matthew Jackson* Michel Piccoli - Mr...
(1982)
- Interno Berlinese (The Berlin Affair
The Berlin Affair is the English title to "Interno Berlinese" ; an Italo-German film directed by Liliana Cavani and starring Gudrun Landgrebe, Kevin McNally and Mio Takaki. Set in Berlin, 1938, it sees the wife of a rising Nazi diplomat fall in love with Mitsuko Matsugae the daughter of the...
) (1985)
- Francesco
Francesco is a 1989 docu-drama relating in flashback St. Francis of Assisi's evolution from rich man's son to religious humanitarian and finally to full-fledged saint. The film was based on Herman Hesse's Francis of Assisi, which director Liliana Cavani had previously filmed in 1966...
(1989)
- Dove siete? Io sono qui (1993)
- Ripley's Game
Ripley's Game is a feature film based on the 1974 novel of the same name; the third in Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad," a series of books chronicling the murderous adventures of con artist Tom Ripley...
(2002)
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